Company Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Zynga

Written by :

Aaron Goldstein

Published on :

17 August, 2011

With the US Justice Department aggressively seizing domain addresses of companies alleged to be involved in patent infringement, Zynga better be careful.

While we are being a little tongue-in-cheek, the world’s largest free Internet poker game is accused of violating two patents owned by Agincourt Gaming.

That company is seeking unspecified monetary damages and a permanent injunction against Zynga according to the Wednesday filing presented in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Agincourt, which focuses on the social-gaming space, said it "owns foundational patents that claim priority back to 1996 and cover the processes for credits-based online gaming and a prize redemption system based on the outcome of game play."

Patent lawsuits are nothing new to the world of online poker. In 2007, Bodog.com lost its domain name over a period of several months , the result of a patent dispute involving a "method and system for interactively transmitting multimedia information over a network which requires a reduced bandwidth”.

- Aaron Goldstein, Gambling911.com

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