Pokémon Go Maker Niantic Knocks Down AR Patents: Delaware Brief

Pokémon Go Maker Niantic Nixes AR Patents

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Niantic, 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, Christopher Yasiejko reports.

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 in the US District Court for the District of Delaware.

Wolson, sitting by designation from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, granted Niantic’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and denied ImagineAR’s request ...