On December 15, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision that a computerized gaming patent owned by John Stephenson, allegedly a competitor of Game Show Network , is invalid. In 2011, Stephenson, the founder of Multimedia Games Inc., sued GSN for infringement of a patent directed to computer gaming tournaments.

On December 15, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision that a computerized gaming patent owned by John Stephenson, allegedly a competitor of Game Show Network , is invalid. In 2011, Stephenson, the founder of Multimedia Games Inc., sued GSN for infringement of a patent directed to computer gaming tournaments.