Federal Appeals Court to Rule on Patent Infringement Suit Against Video Games Manufacturers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) July 16, 2003 -- NOTE: Online version with links to documents available at:



http://www.myshare.ayotsu.com/press/ours/pr030716.html





Cambridge. MA. - July 16, 2003. The Federal Appeals Court for the Federal Circuits in Washington DC has set August 4, 2003 as the date on which to rule on the latest appeal in the 6 year battle between inventor Mr. Joseph Okor and the video game industry.



The defendants involved are:

HOME VIDEO GAME MANUFACTURERS: Nintendo of America Inc., Sega of America Inc., Sony Entertainment America Inc.,



ARCADE VIDEO GAME MANUFACTURERS: Atari Games Corp., Midway Games Inc., Capcom Entertainment Inc., Jaleco Entertainment Inc., Konami of America Inc., Namco of America Inc., Sammy USA Corp., Sega Enterprises Inc. (USA).



US Patent No. 4,126,851- Programmable Television Game System, and patent No, 4,127,849 - System for converting coded data into display data. form the basis of every Programmable Video Game. All Video Games made since early 1980's are Programmable Video Games.

Mr. Okor is a native of Ghana, West Africa. These inventions were made whiles he was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge. Massachusetts. The inventions were the results of his search for ways to teach remotely by radio, TV or over the telephone.



The invention was one of the inventions that was written about in a January 22, 1975 front page article the Wall Street Journal (PDF, HTML) wrote about the MIT Innovation center.



The defendants in these cases have never challenged the validity of the patents. Rather, they claim they have not infringed the patents. The Appeals Court will therefore decide whether Mr. Okor is rewarded for inventions that have generated over $100 Billion in revenue.

One would expect such high stake cases involving some of the most aggressive companies and lawyers to turn into a street brawl. It didn't happen that way. Instead, the cases were fought on the intellectual level. The collective resources of the video game industry and that of 23 law firms against Mr. Okor who has represented himself (Pro Se) throughout the proceedings.





If there are any doubts about the merits of the cases, this is from the District Judge's January 23, 2003 Memorandum and Order denying the defendants' motion requiring Mr. Okor to post a bond of $133,000 before he could file this appeal.



"As my multiple memoranda resolving the cases make clear, I did not view plaintiff's contentions to be frivolous or without foundations."





Overview of issues raised on appeal:

http://www.myshare.ayotsu.com/press/ours/pr030716ax.html



Documents filed in these appeals are online at:

http://www.myshare.ayotsu.com/appeal/a02138x



Documents about the cases are online at:

http://www.myshare.ayotsu.com/



For more information, contact:



Joseph K. Okor

Phone: (561) 431-8294

Fax: (561) 431-8294

Email: jkokor@alum.mit.edu, jkokor1@yahoo.com

Web: http://www.ayotsu.org/myshare





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