• MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-12-14
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    Date Filed: 2010-12-14
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: David G. Campbell, District Judge, Presiding Before: William C. Canby, Jr., Consuelo M. Callahan and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lance C. Venable (argued) and Joseph R. Meaney of Venable, Campillo, Logan & Meaney, P.C., for plaintiff-appellant-cross-appellee MDY Industries LLC and plaintiff-appellant-third-party-defendant-appellee Michael Donnelly.
    for defendant: Christian S. Genetski (argued), Shane M. McGee, and Jacob A. Sommer of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, for defendants-appellees-cross-appellants Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and Vivendi Games, Inc. George A. Riley, David R. Eberhart, and David S. Almeling of O?Melveny & Myers LLP, for amicus curiae Business Software Alliance. Scott E. Bain, Keith Kupferschmid, and Mark Bohannon, for amicus curiae Software & Information Industry Association. Brian W. Carver of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Information, and Sherwin Siy and Jef Pearlman, for amicus curiae Public Knowledge. Robert H. Rotstein, Steven J. Metalitz, and J. Matthew Williams of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, for amicus curiae Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.

    Case Number: No. 09-15932 No. 09-16044

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 15420MDY INDUSTRIES, LLC, Plaintiff-counter-defendant-Appellant, v. BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT,