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Today in Game History: The Court Decision That Birthed Bobby Kotick

by rawmeatcowboy
03 January 2011
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Twenty-five years ago today, a judge in the federal district court in San Francisco found that game publisher Activision had infringed on a patent filed in 1979 by Ralph Baer, the man often associated as the creator of home videogames. This decision, in many ways, paved the way for new management to take over the struggling publisher and turn it into the giant it is today.

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