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16 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. [i] (2016-2017)
Gotta Catch a Lawsuit: A Legal Insight into the Intellectual, Civil, and Criminal Battlefield Pokemon Go Has Downloaded onto Smartphones and Properties around the World

handle is hein.journals/johnmars16 and id is 343 raw text is: THE J OHN MARSHALL REVIEW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW GOTTA CATCH ... A LAWSUIT?A LEGAL INSIGHT INTOTHE INTELLECTUAL, CIVIL, AND CRIMINAL BATTLEFIELD 'POK§ MON Go' HAS DOWNLOADED ONTO SMARTPHONES AND PROPERTIES AROUND THE WORLD ANDREW L. Rossow ABSTRACT Our society, and its millennials, have entered the digital age, whereby almost everything is conducted and perpetuated through electronic devices. Smartphones have dominated the mobile device market and have allowed its users to download mobile applications and games to the device. Pok]mon Go, is the latest trend in mobile gaming and the start to a bright future of augmented reality. But what happens when augmented reality meets the physical world? Do our modern-day statutes and laws extend intothe cyberspace that it is augmented reality? What happens when a user of an augmented reality game enters onto the property of another and interferes with that individual's fundamental property right of quiet enjoyment and use of the property? Should the mobile game user be held liable under trespassing or nuisance laws? Should the Developers of such a game be held liable under theories of negligence, trespass, and/or nuisance? This article attempts to explore the concept of augmented reality as it pertains to the creation of Pok]mon Go by Niantic, Inc., The Pok]mon Company, and Nintendo. Pok]mon Go is the latest augmented reality game for iPhone and Android, which allows its user to travel in the physical world, while catching Pok]mon in the virtual world, depicted through a Google interface overlay. Copyright 0 2017 TheJ ohn Marshall Law School Cite as Andrew L. Rossow, Gotta Catch ... a Lawsuit? A Legal Insight into the Intellectual, Civil, and Criminal Battlefield 'Pok4hnon Go' has Downloaded onto Smartphones and Properties Around the World, 16J . MARSHALL REV. INTELL. PROP. L. 329 (2017).

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