On Christmas Eve, Worlds.com filed a complaint against NCsoft
for infringing on its virtual world and MMO patent. Worlds.com, which
was one of the early virtual world developers from the '90s, made waves
earlier this month when it announced
that it had selected an intellectual property firm to defend its two
patents related to scaling virtual spaces and enabling users to
interact and chat in 3D environments.
The
complaint seeks to recover damages for the infringement and asks that
NCsoft be prevented from infringing on patent 690, which covers
scaling. Based on NCsoft's headquarters in Austin as a source of the
infringement, the complaint was filed in the Eastern District of Texas,
Tyler Division.
Worlds.com Inc. v. NCsoft Corp is Civil Action No. 6:08-cv-508. You can download the PDF of the complaint here.
