you’ve been served
8:36AM ON
07/26/2008
BY
Beth Comery
Now that Hasbro has launched its own online Scrabble game, the company has filed suit in federal court against Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, the Indian brothers who created Scrabulous on Facebook in 2005.
The suit claims that Scrabulous has violated Hasbro’s intellectual property rights. Facebook is not named as a defendant, but has been notified of the suit. The new Hasbro version is available in the U.S. and Canada, but Mattel owns the overseas rights to Scrabble and they launched their online version in March. It’s complicated.
July 30th, 2008 at 3:17PM
scrabulost | Providence Daily Dose Says:
[...] who can apparently see the writing on the wall and might be hoping to mitigate their damages. (The battle between Scrabble copyright owners Hasbro and the creators of Scrabulous started about a year ago [...]
August 1st, 2008 at 11:03PM
these guys need a girlfriend | Providence Daily Dose Says:
[...] person and the phone won’t stop ringing. We have a fewnew developments in this fascinating battle. Writing for Business Week, Catherine Holahan reports that heart-broken and jonesing Scrabulous [...]