According to Gamasutra, Beiswenger has chosen to voluntarily drop his lawsuit due to “unrelated business matters”.

Beiswenger has originally claimed that the Assassin’s Creed storyline lifted several major plot points from his 2002 novel ‘Link’.

In dropping the case against Ubisoft at this point, according to legal representative Kelley Clements Keller, Beiswenger is free to re-open the case at any point in the future should he desire to do so.

“My client’s decision to exercise his right to voluntarily dismiss the action, without prejudice, in no way diminishes his stalwart conviction in the merit of his claims against Ubisoft. He is unwavering in his belief that many key components of the Assassin’s Creed video game franchise infringe on many key components of his novel, Link,” said Keller.

“We believe Ubisoft has engaged in egregious acts of copyright infringement and, should he choose to seek redress through the courts in the future, we remain confident that a trier of fact would agree.”

Beiswenger had also filed a lawsuit against GameTrailers, which was settled out of court on 18 May.

Source: Gamasutra

There’s a lawsuit for everything nowadays, as a man has sued Ubisoft for copying the central theme for Assassin’s Creed 3.

He believes he invented the concept of going back through memories to see how your ancestors were like.

He apparently has a copy right for all of that. Wonder why he sued after Ubisoft had put out 3 successful games and not before? Did he hear about this now?

But he could have a case as he’s the author of a novel called Link which was published in 2003. His name is John Beiswenger and he means business.

So what has that got to do with GameTrailers? He alleged that they showed this trailer in 2010 which they shouldn’t have… yeah okay.

Here are the juicy court documents, and do you believe that he may win this? I definitely do not. Tell us what you think in the comments section below.

[Kotaku] [Patent Arcade]