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If it's a day ending in "y" the chances are pretty good that someone is looking to file a lawsuit against EA. The latest is from a company named White Knuckle that claims EA's sports titles infringe on patent number 8,529,350. This software patent relates to recording "real-world parameters, then storing those elements on a server so players can download to update their games." The patent was filed originally in October 2002. To put it simply, this means that White Knuckle has an issue wi...

If it's a day ending in "y" the chances are pretty good that someone is looking to file a lawsuit against EA. The latest is from a company...

Back in April of 2013, a lawsuit was filed against EA and EA Sports from one of the original programmers for the John Madden Football series, Robin Antonick. They claimed that EA never paid him for his work which was apparently copied for future games from his original work.

In June, a jury agreed with Antonick and found that EA did use code and features developed by him in Madden from 1990 to 1996. The problem here, says U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer, is that...

Back in April of 2013, a lawsuit was filed against EA and EA Sports from one of the original programmers for the John Madden Football series,...