Oral Argument Set for March 8, 2022 in Worlds’ Appeal to Establish the Validity of its Patents Directed to 3-D Virtual Worlds and Network Architecture

Boston, MA, Jan. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is scheduled to hear oral arguments on March 8, 2022 in the appeal filed by Worlds Inc. (OTC-BB:WDDD), seeking to reverse an adverse District Court ruling from April 30, 2021 that favored defendants Activision Blizzard Inc., Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., and Activision Publishing, Inc. Worlds has been in litigation with the Activision defendants since 2012, with Worlds asserting that the Activision defendants infringed Worlds’ patents directed to three-dimensional (3D) virtual world technology and network architecture. While this litigation was stayed in 2015 while Worlds defended its patents against six validity challenges brought before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Worlds’ patents all survived these challenges. In 2020, the litigation stay was lifted, and the parties progressed through extensive discovery. However, litigation against the Activision defendants ended when the District Court ruled that Worlds’ patents were invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as directed to patent-ineligible subject matter.