Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Electronic Arts, Inc. (EA) is a major American video game company founded in 1982 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. As a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ (EA), it is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. For the fiscal year ending in March 2026, the company reported revenue of approximately $7.53 billion and had about 14,500 employees as of March 2025.
EA is an operating company that develops, markets, publishes, and distributes games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, mobile devices, and personal computers. The company is known for its portfolio of high-profile brands. Its EA SPORTS division publishes major sports franchises like EA SPORTS FC and Madden NFL. Other key franchises include successful titles such as Apex Legends, Battlefield, The Sims, and Need for Speed.
The company's patent litigation history shows it as a defendant, a common posture for a large operating company. The database lists two tracked cases where Electronic Arts was a defendant and none where it was a plaintiff. Both lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, a venue historically popular for patent infringement lawsuits.
The two tracked cases, filed in 2010 and 2013, were initiated by Uniloc USA, Inc., a well-known non-practicing entity (NPE), also described as a patent assertion entity (PAE). Uniloc is known for filing a high volume of patent infringement lawsuits against numerous technology companies. The litigation against Electronic Arts is consistent with this pattern of an NPE asserting its patent portfolio against a large, successful technology firm.
The case against Electronic Arts was dismissed on May 18, 2015. The defendant had previously been the petitioner in an unsuccessful IPR (IPR2015-00178) against the patent.