Thank goodness for the American court system. If there’s an issue it will take care of it no matter how long it takes. Or maybe it’s the other way around and they’ll make an issue take longer than it ever should because of the loopholes and scheduling that occur within the system. I don’t actually know, I’m not a lawyer, but I do know that it doesn’t look like theInterplay vs. Bethesdalawsuit won’t be ending any time soon.
While a judge hasalready ruledthat Bethesda’s perliminary injuction to stop Interplay from selling theFalloutfranchise was not legal, the battle still rages on for who will eventually own all the rights to theFalloutMMO and if Interplay has actually broken its contract with Bethesda concerning the game. Now that fight has a schedule, or to be more apt, the precursor to the fight has a schedule. According to the filing schedule thatDuck and Coveruncovered it appears that a court case won’t actually be taking place until 2011 as the draft pretrial order (whatever that is) isn’t even due until Dec. 30 of this year. Drafts of pretrials! That doesn’t sound anywhere near a resolution.
As the poster at Duck and Cover commented this could give Bethesda a chance to really just wait until Interplay goes dry. Then again, maybe they could really rush this through and we’ll have a resolution sooner than we thought. The schedule is after the jump.
