NantWorks, LLC v. Niantic, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division NANTWORKS, LLC, et al., Case No. 20-cv-06262-LB

Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING NIANTIC

SUMMARY JUDGMENT

v. Re: ECF No. 245 NIANTIC, INC., Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION NantWorks sued Niantic for infringing NantWorks’ patents in Niantic’s augmented-reality (AR) game apps Pokémon Go and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. The games use the camera and GPS system on a mobile device and an AR platform to superimpose AR objects onto digital representations of a device’s actual surroundings. For example, Pokémon Go users go on scavenger hunts to collect virtual objects (such as Pokémon characters) that are represented on the device as if they are in the player’s real-world location. U.S. Patent No. 10,4034,051 (the ’051 patent) is directed to incorporating virtual objects into a digital representation of an actual scene surrounding a device (such as a mobile phone). Niantic moved…