Hasbro sees Scrabulous as a Risk to their Monopoly
Hasbro, the owners of the Scrabble trademark, has sued the creators of Scrabulous.
The numbers are definitely on their side - the twin official Scrabble applications (due to other copyright reasons, the players United States and Canada have to use a different game than the rest of the world) get some tens of thousands users daily, whereas Scrabulous pulls in at least half a million players every day.
As the defendants, the Agarwalla brothers, are Indian and there are no tangible assets in the states, it’s pretty unclear how the case will proceed.
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