Zynga sues sex app maker over Bang With Friends name
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#2I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Seriously.
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#3I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Seriously.
It does seem stupid but they have to. It's like the Bethesda / Mojang trademark battle over "Scrolls". Trademark law, at least in this country, is strict. If you don't go after potential trademark infringements diligently and in a reasonable time period, then you will quickly lose the legal right to do so.
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#4Thanks for sharing this comical story. lol. Zynga, of all companies. Suing? They're crazy.
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#5There is something distinctly disgusting about Zynga suing somebody for using a phrase "[someting] with friends", that they feel they own - when the whole company is basically built on stealing ideas of other companies and adding "oh-look-wow-facebook-spam" to them.
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#6Protecting trademarks is serious business.
Remember when Monster Cable sued Monster Mini-golf? Personally, I think Zynga has more important things to worry about, and I get this is a big deal for the startup, but it's just a corporate lawyer doing his job.
I'm not saying it's right, but if someone made another, more accurately targeted, ____ With Friends game, they could cite Zynga's inaction with respect to Bang With Friends as not protecting their trademark.
As with all things legal, the underlying reality is less interesting than the potential interpretation. Granted, if I'm wrong and they actually wanna put Bang With Friends out of business, well that would be just plain sad.
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#7Zynga will do better to actually make better games that someone will play than going after small app developers over flimsy reasons. Oh and they can't own the phrase "... with friends"!
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#9Wow, the creators of BWF must be celebrating tonight. Look at all this free press, now they can say they've been covered by BBC too!
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#10Zynga will do better to actually make better games that someone will play than going after small app developers over flimsy reasons. Oh and they can't own the phrase "... with friends"!
Zynga has a lot of people to sue if they want to own "... with friends."
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22*%20with%20fr...