Meta Copied VR Technology Key To Metaverse Gaming, Immersion Claims (bloomberg.com) 13
Meta Platforms built its industry-leading virtual reality headset by infringing Immersion's patents, the smaller company alleged in a lawsuit. From a report: The Meta Quest 2, which dominates the market, infringes six patents covering haptic technology, Immersion said in a complaint filed Thursday in federal court in Waco, Texas. In video game systems and controllers, haptics allow users to experience vibrations that mimic real-life forces -- such as blocking a punch in a virtual boxing game. Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has committed to spending $10 billion a year to bring to life his vision of a virtual reality-enabled metaverse. Sales of Meta Quest 2 hit 8.7 million units in 2021, twice as much as in the prior year, and the company owns 80% of the market.
The actual patents (Score:4, Informative)
Here's the list of patents that Immersion claims were infringed, since they're not listed in the article:
U.S. Patent No. 8,469,806: “System and method for providing complex haptic stimulation during input of control gestures, and relating to control of virtual equipment”
U.S. Patent No. 8,896,524: “Context-dependent haptic confirmation system”
U.S. Patent No. 9,727,217: “Haptically enhanced interactivity with interactive content”
U.S. Patent No. 10,248,298: “Haptically enhanced interactivity with interactive content”
U.S. Patent No. 10,269,222: “System with wearable device and haptic output device”
U.S. Patent No. 10,664,143: “Haptically enhanced interactivity with interactive content”
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Metastasis vs. patent troll.
Whoever loses,
we win.
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So... 6 patents that reinvented a rumble controller and put in fancy words and bolted "interactive content" on the end.
You know it's troll (Score:5, Interesting)
when it's filed in Waco, Texas. Reference: https://www2.law.temple.edu/10... [temple.edu]
Excerpt from that article:
1. The Western District’s case assignment practice enables plaintiffs to predict—with absolute certainty—that Judge Albright, not any of the 16 other judges sitting in the district, will hear their case. All they have to do is select “Waco” from the drop-down menu on the court’s electronic filing system and the case is automatically assigned to Judge Albright.
2. Judge Albright has adopted a fast-track scheduling order that sets deadlines useful to patentees seeking to elicit quick settlements and avoid PTAB review.
3. Venue transfer decisions: Judge Albright rarely transfers cases out of the Western District of Texas (only 3 of 14 inter-district transfer motions have succeeded to date), a practice also used by judges in the Eastern District of Texas during its heyday as the go-to district for patent litigation. More remarkably, Judge Albright regularly transfers cases filed in the Western District’s Waco Division to its Austin Division while retaining the case on his own docket (50 cases and counting so far).
It’s worth pausing to emphasize what this means: patentees are filing in Waco to guarantee Judge Albright is assigned to the case. But they do not actually have to litigate in Waco to keep the case in front of Judge Albright. Rather, they can ask him to transfer the case to the more desirable locale of Austin and he will do it as a matter of course—even though, if the case had been filed in Austin originally, there is zero chance Judge Albright would have been assigned to it.
4. Judge Albright seems reluctant to stay litigation pending related disputes in other forums, such as the PTAB, not just because of the aggressive schedule he sets but also because of a normative belief that patentees have a constitutional right to have a jury decide patent validity.
5. Judge Albright has never invalidated a patent on eligibility grounds (10 motions, 10 denials), even though many of the patents being asserted are the “do it on a computer” patents at which the Supreme Court’s Alice decision was most directly targeted.
Obvious Patents are Obvious (Score:2)
And should not have been allowed in the first place.
This is truly sick (Score:2)
making me root for Facebook like this.
I thought Meta's VR technology was... (Score:2)
Which was among one of the first VR headsets out there that was aiming at a consumer electronics price point.
Did the Occulus infringe on those patents or something?
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Servreality (Score:1)