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Kiss lip lawsuit against Activision goodbye
Activision Blizzard has announced that the United States District Court, Central District of California, has invalidated all patents claims made by McRO Inc., which conducts its business as a production and effects company called Planet Blue. The claims sought financial restitution against Activision Blizzard for the use of methods related to "automatically animating lip synchronization and facial expressions of 3D characters" that McRO had patented. Activision Blizzard filed a motion to dismiss the claim and to strip McRO of the patents, saying the patents "were invalid because they claimed well-known and long-practiced lip-synching methods implemented on a computer."
