In addition to that interesting virtual trespassing lawsuit, another legal conflict ongoing in Wisconsin had a major development this week. As you'll recall, Milwaukee County enacted a regulation in February requiring augmented reality game developers to go through a rigorous approval process with several very expensive requirement to operate in Milwaukee's parks. Although this targeted Niantic and Pokémon Go, another game developer Candy Labs challenged this in court and won an injunction this week from the court against enforcement of the regulation until a full trial, scheduled in early 2018. For now, Niantic and others can operate for players in this area again.
I will analyze this in detail on Current Geek as the trial occurs, but the legal challenge to the regulation based on First Amendment free speech protections is a close call in my initial view. But it's a good sign that the judge entered an injunction, as that typically means there's a good chance to prevail at trial also. So Niantic didn't just win with the anniversary event and legendary raids this week!
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