SANTA MONICA (dpa-AFX) - Activision Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (ATVI), has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Worlds Inc. and Worlds Online Inc., in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
In the suit, Activision claims that Worlds has infringed, and continues to infringe, a patent entitled 'Navigation with optimum viewpoints in three-dimensional workspace interactive displays having three-dimensional objects with collision barriers' and another one entitled 'Climability: property for objects in 3-D virtual environments.' The contested product is software distributed by Worlds called 'Worlds Player.'
Worlds Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, Inc., Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and Activision Publishing, Inc. on March 30, 2012. That lawsuit is pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
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