Video Game Patent Lawsuit Settled

It would seem that Atari is agreed to settle a patent infringement lawsuit filed by American Video Graphics. Atari is only one of dozens of video companies that was sued by AVG but Atari is the first company to settle.

In Atari's latest SEC filing, which recently showed the company in dire straits, a $300,000 settlement was revealed for a patent infringement case launched against many major publishers. American Video Graphics L.P. owns the rights to the "method and apparatus for spherical panning" (US Pat. No. 4,734,690), essentially the means for displaying moving 3D perspectives on a 2D screen.

Lawsuits like this stink to high heaven.