Sony Keeps Patent Win Tied to Lawsuit Over PlayStation 4 Tech

The Federal Circuit upheld an administrative ruling that tossed claims in a video gaming machine patent challenged by Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, which had been sued over the technology in a federal court in California.

The patent at issue is one of several that Bot M8 LLC asserted against Sony in a still pending 2019 lawsuit before Judge William Alsup in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The parties have previously clashed at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which in 2021 revived some patent infringement claims against Sony and its PlayStation …

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