Posts Tagged ‘ IP ’

Tiga surveying developers on game cloning

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UK game industry trade body Tiga is calling on developers to offer their opinions on the issue of copyright and game cloning. The survey includes 15 questions on subjects such as whether your business has suffered from game cloning,  IP ownership, licensing and copyright enforcement. The questionnaire also aims to discover the percentage of...
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‘Draw Breaker’ Review – A Monster of a Brick Breaker

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‘Draw Breaker’ Review – A Monster of a Brick Breaker

The worst way for a studio to introduce a game may well be “it’s like X, but with Y.” It’s like Temple Run, but with zombies. It’s like Tiny Tower, but on a boat. It’s good to be honest, but it’s a hard sell. Why should you, savvy App Store customer, care about a...
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Apps millionaire Simon Oliver bringing Okabu back to iOS and Android

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Apps millionaire Simon Oliver bringing Okabu back to iOS and Android

In app terms, 2008 feels a world away. Apple launched its App Store in July that year, and issued a press release trumpeting 10m downloads in its first weekend. Fast forward to March 2012, and a single game – Angry Birds Space – was hitting the same three-day milestone, albeit on iOS, Android and PC/Mac. Times...
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Zynga’s Formerly-Secret Defense Against Copycat Accusations

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CONFIDENTIAL. PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD Everyone, There’s press today about one of our mobile games, Dream Heights, that just launched in Canada and worldwide soon. As we become the Zynga of Mobile and more broadly, as Zynga grows by further innovating on best of breed social mechanics, we should expect the industry to sit...
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Bingo Blitz developer accuses Zynga of copying

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Bingo Blitz developer accuses Zynga of copying

  Bingo Blitz developer accuses Zynga of copying by Mike Rose 14 comments <!– –>     January 30, 2012   ... more at article source
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Samsung, Servier, NFL, Haig, Zynga: Intellectual Property

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January 30, 2012, 12:23 AM EST By Victoria Slind-Flor (This is a daily report on global news about patents, trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property topics.) Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — Samsung Electronics Co. lost a patent ruling in Germany in a mobile technology case brought against Apple Inc., a week after judges rejected a...
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Samsung, Servier, NFL, ‘Rogue Attorney’, Zynga: Intellectual Property

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Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) lost a patent ruling in Germany in a mobile technology case brought against Apple Inc., a week after judges rejected a similar bid by the Suwon, South Korea-based company against the iPad maker. The Regional Court in Mannheim rejected the suit Jan. 27, Joachim Bock, a spokesman for the tribunal,...
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Tiny Gamemaker Takes The Right Approach To Giant Zynga Copying Its Game: It …

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Tiny Gamemaker Takes The Right Approach To Giant Zynga Copying Its Game: It …

from the nicely-done dept It’s no secret at all that casual gaming giant Zynga has a dreadful reputation for copying the games of others, and then crushing them in the marketplace. What’s even more ridiculous is that Zynga also has a habit of using IP laws to go after competitors. There’s been a lot...
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NimbleBit comments on popularity of Tiny Tower, working on new IP

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NimbleBit comments on popularity of Tiny Tower, working on new IP

Inside Mobile Apps has an interview with the winners of Apple’s choice for best iPhone game of the year, David and Ian Marsh of NimbleBit. I was a huge fan of their freemium title Pocket Frogs, but it’s their latest release, Tiny Tower, that has earned a lot of solid accolades (not to mention...
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