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This was from Oct 11. Wonder how long until the judge makes her decision and what will happen going forward based on discovery.
The courts granted CIG’s motion to dismiss with leave to amend. So Crytek has 21 days to amend their complaint or let the court know they will be dropping that specific point of contention
https://www.docdroid.net/Jv5BRif/031129522308.pdf
With this ruling from the judge the points stand on:
- The idea that CIG is competing with Crytek in the game engine space has been shot down by the court (CIG weren't "engaging in the business" of selling StarEngine, so Crytek have no grounds to say that they were "designing, developing, creating or promoting" an engine which competes with Cryengine.)
- Their GLA permits adapting Cryengine to suit CIG's needs.
- The GLA only prohibits CIG from licensing to a third party. Not licensing from another party i.e: Lumberyard
- CIG aren't obliged to promote Cryengine. The promotion of Lumberyard is not sufficiently evidenced.
- Crytek can file a third and final ammended complaint addressing these issues, but until then the MTD is granted.
Also don’t forget the judge already threw out the other MtD’s so Crytek still has some teeth in the fight if this one is upheld. How sharp those teeth will be though remains to be seen
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I think that would say a lot more about Cryteck than it would about CIG
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With mutual agreement on that doing what Argle suggested would also be criminal behavior even without any action that would hit blackmail.
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The basis of having a case would be on that "2 year period".They would need to prove that CIG was moving away and working on another engine while still under contract.
Trying to sue them well after the 2 year period was dumb and should have been told by their crap lawyers they had NO case at all.
So they need to stick to the contract and look therein and not think they can just win based on morals because Courts don't care about morals,they look at laws.
I will say that most figured there was no agreement at all but there was for a 2 year period.
Now WHY after that 2 year period is there not a new contract?Then if there was not a contract why was Crytek not investigating the use of said engineThis just seems so amateur hour by Crytek's lawyers because if there is a section of a contract that is about to become void,that contract needs to be rewritten.
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Yes this will boil down to money, the prospects of how much money could they get vs the costs of this lawsuit if they lost arguments that were key to stand claiming large numbers in dramages.
That's why they were so nitpicky about SQ42, and with the GLA having bits supporting CIG's defense of allowing them to develop SQ42 as is... they have their work cut out for them on this stuff.
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