Legal Opinion
Location Based Servs., LLC v. Niantic, Inc.
District Court, N.D. California
Decided December 19, 2017No. Case No. 17-cv-04413 NCPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NATHANAEL M. COUSINS, United States Magistrate Judge
In the summer of 2016 it was common to see children and adults walking while craning their necks down to their phones in an effort to catch Pokémon or reach Pokéstops. This patent infringement suit goes to the core of the mapping technology used in Pokémon GO. Plaintiff Location Based Services, LLC (LBS) asserts 44 separate claims spread out over four map-related patents that are allegedly infringed at apparently every instant a user is playing Pokémon GO.
Defendant Niantic, Inc. is the developer of Pokémon GO, and Niantic moves to dismiss…
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