SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday threw a penalty flag on a computer programmer’s bid to recoup millions in royalties from Electronic Arts Inc. on sales of its popular John Madden Football video game series.
Programmer Robin Antonick coded the first Madden game for the Apple II computer in the late 1980s but stopped working with Electronic Arts after that. Two decades later, in 2011, he filed suit against EA claiming that he was owed royalties on the Sega and Super Nintendo console versions of the game.
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