Gibson Guitars Sues Video Game over Guitar Patent

The developers of Guitar Hero Harmonix, over the guitar patent Gibson hold. Is a vurtual likeness of a patented physical item, infringement? In this article, Dale Dietrich explains the details of the suit and the response by Harmonix.

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Gibson Guitars Sues Video Game over Guitar Patent

After “good faith efforts to enter into a patent license agreement”, and subsequent yesterday’s filing of law suits against Activision’s Guitar Hero retailers, Gibson has filed another patent infringement suit against MTV, EA & Harmonix in the Federal District Court in Tennessee. Gibson owns patent no. 5,990,405.
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