Patent Law

Scrabulous by Any Other Name is Baaaaccccckkkkkkkkk

By Les Weinstein, Michael Young, John Leo Wagner, Eric van Ginkel, and Victoria Pynchon

Thanks to @dhowell (she of Bag and Baggage) for alerting us to BetaNews' breaking news that Hasbro has settled with the Scrabulous brothers.  Here's the news release:

"Pursuant to the settlement, RJ Softwares has agreed not to use the term Scrabulous and has made changes to the Lexulous and Wordscraper games (in the US and Canada) to distinguish them from the Scrabble crossword game. Based on these modifications Hasbro has agreed to withdraw the litigation filed against RJ Softwares in federal court in New York in July of this year. As modified, the Wordscraper application will continue to be available on Facebook and Lexulous will be available on the Lexulous.com Web site."

Read the full story (an excellent post) over at BetaNews here.

Full post as published by IP ADR Blog on December 15, 2008 (boomark / email).