Former Universal Creative Director suing Disney over Rise of the Resistance ride system

[Timmy Boy]

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/for... COUNTY, Fla.,and at Disneyland in California
Interesting. Looks like it's the drop track portion that's in question.

 

[KYMickey]

Interesting that he waited this long before filing suit. This ride has been in development and use for quite a while now. I wonder what the statute of limitations is something like this and when the clock actually starts.

 

[Q-man]

Interesting that he waited this long before filing suit. This ride has been in development and use for quite a while now. I wonder what the statute of limitations is something like this and when the clock actually starts.

Six years previous to filing of suit if it has a patent.

Gonna get paid more from an up and running attraction violating your patent than from stopping it from happening.

 

[Devil13]

I hope this somehow forces them to shut it down and he becomes the owner and charges Chapek $15 to ride it

 

[JoeA]

I hope this somehow forces them to shut it down and he becomes the owner and charges Chapek $15 to ride it

If this a valid patent infringement you can probably add a few zeros to that figure (well, more than a few!)

 

[LittleDreamer]

Looking up the patent 9266028 it seems like this is related to the elevator sections of Transformers. I think a lot of suit is going to revolve around how the screen is built in the drop section. If the screen is attached to the drop cage they might be able to argue it is different. If screen is attached to the building then it will be harder to fight. It's hard to tell how it is in videos.

I would assume the reason it took so long to file is because it took awhile to confirm that the ride system is similar to his.

 

[LittleDreamer]

I hope this somehow forces them to shut it down and he becomes the owner and charges Chapek $15 to ride it

Sadly if he asks for continuing compensation Disney could just close over the "window" of the drop pod and problem solved. Worse rider experience but savings for Disney.

 

[TiggerBouncy]

These patents - even as much as they look like an infringement - can be very difficult to defend. My old company stopped filing for them because we were spending way more money trying to defend them than we ever got back. Good luck to him.