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Litigation

Jun. 19, 2013

Former employee's suit over Madden video game turns on statute of limitiations

Statements by Electronic Arts Inc. touting the 20th anniversary of its John Madden football video game tipped off a former employee that it was derived from a computer game he coded years earlier, the man's attorney said Monday.


By Hadley Robinson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - Statements by Electronic Arts Inc. touting the 20th anniversary of its John Madden football video game tipped off a former employee that it was derived from a computer game he coded years earlier, the man's attorney said Monday in opening statements of a breach of contract trial.


But San Francisco-based Keker & Van Nest LLP partner Susan J. Harriman, defending the San Mateo-...

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