Sep 29, 2014

Patent Claims Against Call of Duty and StarCraft Are Dismissed

The Court concluded that two patents for automatically animating lip synchronization and facial expressions of 3D characters were invalid, and as a result, the case against Activision Blizzard has been dismissed.

Patent Claims Against Activision Blizzard’s Use of Lip Synchronization and Facial Expression Technology in Call of Duty®, Skylanders® and StarCraft® II Are Dismissed - Yahoo Finance
From Yahoo Finance: Activision Blizzard, Inc. today announced that the United States District Court, Central District of California has invalidated all patent claims asserted against the Company by McRO, Inc.