Late last year, OnLive finally locked down a patent for a streaming game service, giving the company a leg up on competitors in the marketplace. Unfortunately, a company called T5 Labs is now saying that it has been awarded a patent that predates OnLive’s filing by a few months. T5’s patent application was submitted on March of 2002, while OnLive’s went in on December of that same year.
When reached for comment, OnLive told Joystiq that the company was contacted by T5 boss Graham Clemie and it "saw no relevance whatsoever to OnLive and told him so. We are approached by people with irrelevant patents all the time. We are highly confident in our own patent portfolio, and have no further comment."
T5 is currently deciding if it wishes to contest OnLive’s patent. The company says it’s "deciding whether to commence a procedure in the U.S. Patent Office known as an 'interference’.”
