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That's nice and all, but didn't stop Hasbro from taking down Scrabulous: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/07/scrabulou...

And didn't stop the Tetris Company from taking down Mino: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/06/wireduk-tetris-clone/

IMO this is why Zynga's Words With Friends has a different board, different point values and different bonus squares...

"Scrabulous" the name is a pretty obvious ripoff of "Scrabble," so that's not really a great example. However, the Mino case is certainly very interesting.

The Scrabulous case alleged both trademark infringement (the obvious name ripoff) AND copyright infringement (the board and tile design).

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