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Worlds.com Is Awarded Third "Virtual Worlds" Patent
Brookline, MA, March 10, 2009—General Patent Corporation, a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm announced today that its client, Worlds.com, Inc. (OTC BB:WDD), has been issued U.S. Patent No. 7,493,558…
View ArticleWorlds.com vs Virtual Worlds
Well, it is actually Worlds.com vs NCsoft but the Patents that was supposedly violated by NCsoft is broad and covers most of the Virtual Worlds out there…
View ArticleWorlds.com v. NCsoft Update
Earlier today we reported that Worlds.com had filed a complaint against NCsoft for infringing on its patent for enabling users to interact in virtual space…
View ArticleVirtual worlds firm files IP suit on Christmas Eve
Worlds.com, which launched its first 3D avatar environment back in the mid-90s, has retained an intellectual property law firm and has filed patent infringement suits Its first, against game developer NCsoft, was filed on Christmas Eve…
View ArticleNCsoft Sued for Patent Infringement
Mass.-based online company Worlds.com is suing NCsoft for infringing on a patent that seems to lay claim to fundamental aspects of MMO games…
View Article3D Virtual Worlds Patented! Lawsuits Started
It seems that the ridiculous patent holders are trying to go out with a bang in 2008…
View ArticleWorlds.com patent litigation could ripple through virtual worlds
Remember Worlds.com? The 3D pioneer is still around and they're ready to sue. In fact on Christmas Eve, the company sued NCSoft, for violating patent ‘690, a system and method for enabling users to interact in a virtual space…
View ArticleCity of Heroes fingered in MMO patent lawsuit
On Christmas Eve, South Korean game developer NCSoft received a lawsuit in its stocking from a Massachusetts firm that claims to hold an extremely broad patent for developing online virtual worlds…
View ArticlePatents threaten virtual worlds, MMOGs
Any person who "invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent," subject to the conditions and requirements of the law. So says the US Patent and Trademarks Office (USPTO), citing the applicable statute…
View ArticleWorlds.com Hires IP Firm for Licensing: To Begin Contacting Virtual World Companies "Shortly"
Worlds.com and General Patent Corporation announced today that they had selected intellectual property law firm Lerner David Littenberg Krumholz & Mentlik LLP (LDLKM) to enforce Worlds' patents. Together the two patents currently owned by Worlds describe what sounds like the underpinnings for a wide range of client/server-based 3D virtual worlds, according to the company, if not pretty much all of them. While GPC Chairman and CEO Alexander Poltorak told me that the companies don't have any specific targets in mind, products from Second Life to World of Warcraft could be affected…
View ArticleInterview: Worlds.com CEO Thom Kidrin on Google, Mobile, and Updates
Interview: Worlds.com CEO Thom Kidrin on Google, Mobile, and Updates…
View ArticleVirtual Worlds Get Real About Punishment
Virtual worlds have often been called the digital equivalent of the Wild West, where animated alter egos can live in a fantasy frontier. But in some of these universes, a sheriff has come to town…
View Article80% of Internet Users in Virtual Worlds by 2011
By the end of 2011, 80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 enterprises) will have a "second life", but not necessarily in Second Life, according to Gartner, Inc…
View ArticleThe Coming Virtual Web
Ever since Neal Stephenson published Snow Crash in 1992, the virtual world he described in his seminal dystopian novel has been the Holy Grail for a generation of tech whizzes. The metaverse, as Stephenson called it, was essentially the Internet…
View ArticleIBM to open islands in virtual world
Big Blue has developed 12 "virtual islands," and most will be open to anyone with a Second Life account starting next week. Other areas will remain private haunts for about 800 IBM employees — including the CEO — who have cyber alter-egos…
View ArticleIntel, Raytheon, and other companies dabbling with 3D conferencing
Intel, Raytheon, and other companies are dabbling in technology that enables 3D conferencing, but will employees take to avatar exchanges? Over the past year, Intel employees from Singapore, Israel, and the U.S. have convened via high-level computerized conferences, collaborating on such projects as product strategy and information-technology planning. But these are no ordinary…
View ArticleDigital Suburbia
One recent evening, Amanda Rains, a mother of two college-age boys and the owner of 9mm Books, a small publishing company in San Francisco, was watching a streaming video of a Fox News (NWS) report on her computer. She was mesmerized…
View ArticleWorlds.com, Partners with Pearson For Educational Worlds
Worlds.com announced today that it has signed an agreement with Pearson to develop a series of virtual worlds to potentially be used within existing Pearson education programs…
View ArticleSneak Preview of Hip Hop Legend Darryl "DMC" McDaniels' 3D
Hip hop artist and co-founder of Run-DMC Darryl McDaniels –to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this April -- is opening a whole new world to his fans: DMC's 3D Virtual World…
View ArticleTop 10 Social Networking Sites
My favorite virtual community is Worlds.com. I was introduced to Worlds.com by one of the creators, Thom, and given a grand tour of the world and how to use it. It was a blast! Unlike SecondLife, Worlds.com didn't make my browser crash. I was able to get into Worlds.com without any problems, travel around, change my avatar and chat with people without any major issues.…
View ArticleWorlds featured in April 2007 Business Week report
During the first dot-com boom, Worlds.com built 3D virtual worlds for bands such as Aerosmith and for corporations such as IBM, Visa, and Coca-Cola…
View ArticleRock and Roll Hall of Fame band Aerosmith continues relationship with Worlds
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Aerosmith continues relationship with Worlds…
View ArticleWorlds builds virtual studio for rock legend Joe Perry - The Boneyard
Worlds builds virtual studio for rock legend Joe Perry - The Boneyard…
View ArticleWorlds issued U.S. patent 6.219.045 for 3D technology
Worlds has been granted U.S patent 6,219,045 for multi-server technology for 3D applications, which is Worlds' core technology. The description of the patent is as follows…
View ArticleWorlds issued U.S. patent 6.219.045 for 3D technology
New York December 15 2007 Worlds (www.Worlds.com) (OTC: WDDD), the pioneer platform in 3D virtual communities with rich immersive simulated environments, has added Bernard Stolar, Robert Fireman and Jay Coleman to its board to drive the expansion of the company's groundbreaking vision…
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