“At least five individuals knocked on plaintiff’s door, informed plaintiff that there was a Pokemon in his backyard, and asked for access to plaintiff’s backyard in order to ‘catch’ the Pokemon,” according to the complaint. Pokemon Go was developed by San Francisco-based Niantic, with some input from Nintendo. “If the court comes along and says this kind of suit is OK, what a terrible blow it will be to augmented reality technology.”The case is Marder v. Niantic Inc., 16-cv-04300, US District Court, Northern District of California (Oakland). In the first two weeks after its release, Pokemon Go had been downloaded more than 30 million times and generated more than $35 million in revenue, according to the complaint. “There’s going to be 200 lawsuits, that’s for sure,” Morrison said in a phone interview.

Source: Mint August 02, 2016 16:30 UTC