January 13, 2012 - A company called Paqits LLC has sued Activision Blizzard Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for patent infringement. Paqits alleges that certain social networking features on Activision's website infringe its patent, U.S. Patent No. 7,010,599.
The patent was issued in 2006, and Paqits is the assignee. The case is Paqits, LLC v. Activision Blizzard, Inc.