[ # ] Rock Band Getting sued by Konami
/* Posted July 14th, 2008 at 2:22pm *//* Filed under News, Video Games */
On Friday, Konami announced that it had begun a lawsuit against MTV, Viacom and Harmonix over alleged patent infringement have to do with the blockbuster game Rock Band.
Konami claims that Rock Band infringes on patents pertaining to “musical-rhythm matching game.”
“Konami’s actions are extremely surprising,” an MTV spokesperson said.
“Unfortunately, successful products such as Rock Band can often become targets for baseless litigation. We have substantial defenses to this claim and intend to vigorously defend it.”
Konami is currently working on a new “musical-rhythm matching game” dubbed Rock Revolution and is seeking to have an injunction placed on the instruments sold along with Rock Band.
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