On September 13, 2016, the Federal Circuit issued a decision in McRO, Inc. v. Bandai Namco Games America, that provides a favorable decision applicants and patentees can cite in seeking to obtain and ...

McRO involved two patents that claim methods for automating the generation of 3-D computer animation. In the prior art, animators decided how animated faces should appear at points in time while ...

Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. Increasingly it is created by means of 3D computer graphics, ...