by Cody Bye on Mar 12, 2009
Blizzard's loading up the big guns for one giant smackdown of a courtroom drama. According to Business Insider, the Worlds.com CEO is absolutely planning to take on both Blizzard and Second Life if their lawsuit against NCsoft succeeds.
Worlds.com CEO Thom Kidrin is putting the entire virtual worlds industry on notice: His company claims the idea of a scalable virtual world with thousands of users is its patented intellectual property, and Thom told us he intends to sue anyone who refuses to enter into licensing negotiations -- including giants such as Second Life and World of Warcraft, a property of Activision Blizzard (ATVI).