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Sega Sues EA Over Patented Gameplay Idea
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By Jeff Foster, Section UnFairUse
Posted on Tue Dec 09, 2003 at 05:43:23 PM PDT
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Patent Nonsense -- Litigation Lunacy
Sega Games , according to this Reuters story, has filed suit against Electronic Arts for infringing on a patent that Sega holds for the Crazy Taxi game. Sega claims, according to Reuters, that The Electronic Arts game Simpson's Road Rage was designed to "deliberately copy and imitate” Crazy Taxi. The Sega patent apparently applies to the basic game mechanics of Crazy Taxi which involves picking up passengers in a taxi and delivering them to their destinations as quickly as possible. Reviews which Sega cites in its lawsuit bear out that Simpson's Road Rage is a very similar game to Crazy Taxi. However, as industry observers have pointed out, game companies including Sega have always borrowed ideas from other games to put in their own.
Sources: Published Reports
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