Niantic Inc., maker of the popular Pokémon Go mobile game, convinced a federal judge to invalidate four augmented-reality patents, effectively ending ImagineAR Inc.'s infringement lawsuit over its location-based titles.
The Canadian company’s US Patent Nos. 10,946,284, 11,484,797, 11,666,827, and 12,070,691 are invalid because they’re “abstract and non-inventive,” Judge Joshua D. Wolson wrote in an opinion issued Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware. He granted Niantic’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and denied ImagineAR’s request to amend its complaint, noting it could appeal or file a new suit asserting different patents.
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