Anna has been a freelance writer for more than a decade. In that time, she's covered everything from electronics to esports, from marketing to magic. Her tech and entertainment reporting has appeared on Ars Technica, Mashable, Digital Trends, and more. She especially loves playing, making, and geeking out over video games.
The internet is so core to how modern life operates that it's easy to forget how much of the technology that went into building the world wide web has patent protections. And some of those patents are still being enforced today. Zynga may be learning that the hard way, as a court ruled last week that the gaming company infringed on IBM patents dating back to the pre-internet telecom platformfrom the 1980s. As a result, Zynga could be facing damages of $44.9 million.
For anyone still playing the once-ubiquitous Zynga games, this decision shouldn't interrupt your game time. The company said in anthat it would not have to modify or end operation of its games as a result of the court decision. Intriguingly, not every game in the Zynga catalog wasby Take-Two Interactive in 2022, isn't its first target for potentially infringing on these Prodigy patents, and it's likely not the last.
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