NantWorks, LLC v. Niantic, Inc.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 San Francisco Division 11 NANTWORKS, LLC, et al., Case No. 20-cv-06262-LB

12 Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

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13 v. Re: ECF No. 228 14 NIANTIC, INC., 15 Defendant. 16 17 INTRODUCTION AND STATEMENT 18 NantWorks sued Niantic for infringing NantWorks’ three patents in Niantic’s augmented- 19 reality (AR) game apps Pokémon Go and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Both games use the camera 20 and GPS system on a mobile device and an AR platform to superimpose AR objects onto digital 21 representations of a mobile device’s actual surroundings. For example, the game app Pokémon Go 22 sends users on scavenger hunts to collect virtual objects (such as Pokémon characters), which are 23 represented on the mobile device as if they are in the player’s real-world location.1 There is now 24 one patent remaining in the case: US Patent No. 10,403,051 (the ’051 patent).2 25 26 27 1 Third Am. Compl. – ECF No. 50. Citations refer to material…