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Litigation

Jun. 25, 2013

Video game developer's suit can proceed

A federal jury Friday gave a former software developer the go-ahead to pursue claims that he deserves royalties from Electronic Arts' popular John Madden football video games, which he says were derived from his original source code.


By Hadley Robinson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury Friday gave a former software developer the go-ahead to pursue claims that he deserves royalties from Electronic Arts' popular John Madden football video games, which he says were derived from his original source code.


The trial was divided into multiple phases, with the first part turning on whether Robin Antonick filed his 2011 lawsuit within the statute of lim...

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