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Hasbro Sues Makers of Scrabble-Like Scrabulous
Dekortage writes "As today's lawsuit indicates, Hasbro has apparently had enough of Scrabulous, the online word game remarkably similar to Scrabble. Filed in New York, Hasbro's suit is against Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, brothers from Kolkata, India, and asks the court to remove the Scrabulous application from Facebook, disable the Scrabulous.com web site, and grant damages and attorneys fees to Hasbro. Why did Hasbro tale so long to 'protect' its intellectual property rights in court? They waited 'in deference to the fans' until EA had launched the official Scrabble Facebook app earlier this month. EA's version has netted fewer than ten thousand players, versus Scrabulous' estimated 2.3 million. This was the next logical step for Hasbro after filing DMCA takedown notices against Scrabulous in January."
I R S F T T O P S Q
DESPERATION: When you rearrange the letters: A ROPE ENDS IT
That's Scrabulous news!
Why don't they just buy it?
They'd rather let the world know you don't F with Hasbro.
On the Oregon Cost born and raised, On the beach is where I spent most of my days
Hasbro hasn't exactly tried hard to defend their patent until now. That may not bode well for them.
If you're right and the problem in question is a patents one, I think the best for EA right now would be to apply some dilatory tactics until software patents are abolished, then give the letters "F" and "U" to Hasbro.
This game is older than I am. How can there still be a patent on it?
Trademark issues abound for sure...
But Patents? Puleeeze...
It's like they think they have some sort of... Monopoly.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Scrabble sees Scrabulous as a Risk to their Monopoly.
I like to place meaningful quotes in my sig, so people will know that I know what meaningful quotes are.
They seem to need to find a better distribution system. Their product is sold at toy stores, but that'll set off the adult-without-kids alarm if any Slashdot reader were to try to buy them that way.
Technically Q is worth way more than F
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
That could lead to Trouble. Sorry!
splunge (n) -- A good idea.. but it could be lousy... and I'm not being indecisive!
So they could be taking a huge Risk?
Scabble is obviously taking a Domineering approach to this, causing the two Indian guys to Craps themselves.
Get a Clue... that's Life.
Don't tase me Hasbro!
Just to be sure: you aren't like 5 years old or something, are you?
Exactly! These are tech-support Indians, not casino Indians!
You people Boggle the mind.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Don't taze me, Hasbro
Hasbro: We'll show 'em! No one plays games with us!
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
These jokes are so Parcheesi...