Electronic Gaming Patents Found Invalid under § 101 By Joseph Herndon — In the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (Houston Division), Plaintiff Epic Tech, LLC (a seller of so-called “sweepstakes games”) sued Defendants Fusion Skill, Inc. and Texas Wiz, LLC for infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 9,589,423 and 8,545,315 with the distribution of gaming systems similar to Epic Tech’s sweepstakes games. The two patents at issue are related to the play of sweepstakes games. The first patent (the ‘423 patent) is directed to a method of conducting a sweepstakes game in which a computer-based system operating…
