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New Case: Gametech v. Grand Vision Gaming (D. MT) [C]

GameTech International, Inc. is a supplier of electronic bingo equipment, including hand-held bingo units, fixed-base units and turnkey account and management software. Tim Carson and Merle Frank apparently used to work for GameTech, but left to start their own competing company Grand Vision Gaming. GameTech alleges that the defendants took GameTech's IP when they left, including source code and other trade secrets, and GameTech filed this lawsuit on April 15, 2009, alleging copyright infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, breach of duty of loyalty, and breach of contract (based on employment agreements). This appears to be a straight up software-based copyright infringement case, but we will track it nonetheless and let you know if anything interesting comes of it.

The case is 1:09-cv-00039-RFC, filed April 15, 2009, in the Billings division.

Full post as published by Patent Arcade on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).