One essential ingredient of MMO gameplay is the synchronization of various events and special effects across multiple systems. A boss fight would get hairy pretty quick if everyone in the battle wasn't experiencing the same environment simultaneously. A New York-based company has sued several MMO-makers, claiming the games make use of a patented data sharing technology.

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Fork em all. Not like anyone cared when it was Microsoft at the stand, so there is no right or reason in complaining about this when it was perfectly fine then.

east district of Texas. *sigh*

More crappy lawsuits, we just love lawyers.

What the heck? How do you even patent something like this? I mean, it's a freakin logical idea that anybody with a pulse could have imagined.

The only things that should be patented are unique ideas that came about through creative deduction, or even by accident.

So how long has WoW been out now? Personally I don't play the game, but jesus, if you wanted to get something done they probably should've done this a long time ago.
Just now bringing this suit to court years after these releases, it makes it quite evident they're just after the money.

Yep, i agree that this is a crappy lawsuit. what makes it worse is "Why now?". I mean...WoW has been around for years...Why sue them now? Why not sue when WoW just arrived? ******.

Has everyone became sue happy?

lol to funny they want to sue people with more money then you can shake a stick at and more legal power then donald trump lol ******* people just trying to get a buck some where. BOOOOOOOOOOO

The reason for suing them now vs suing them way back when the games came out is this: in pattent infringement cases, the plaintiff can sue for all the revenue gained by the company as a result of using the invention.
This means that all the profits made by these companies will go to PalTalk, assuming that they win the case. Basically what they did, is they let the gaming companies work for them for those years and now they are going to sue them for all the profits, which are in the millions of dollars.