Tetrada developer receives cease & desist from Tetris company
Intellectual property is a tough area in software and game development--often the lines are blurred and depending on how vehement the IP owner is, enforcement has a huge ranged from nothing likewise stringent.
Windows Telephone programmer Marios Karagiannis who has published the pop 'Monster Upwards' game has another in the Marketplace chosen 'Tetrada' which yes, is very much a Tetris clone. He only received a C&D letter of the alphabet from "Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. Attorneys at Law, on behalf of the Tetris Visitor request us to remove Tetrada from the Marketplace considering they say it looks also similar to their game and violates the copyright of Tetris (TM)."
Marios, being an indie, pupil developer is of form complying equally he has no resource to take on such a company--who has been vehement about enforcing their IP of the Tetris brand on other platforms. The question is, of course, what does the Tetris visitor take a claim on? The name? The logo or the actual game play? We're not sure, simply Marios is under the impression it is just the name/logo, not the game play itself, in which instance his game does not violate their copyright.
The game is being pulled as we speak from the Market place and had fetched for $0.99. We bought it anyways, considering hey, these things are now like collector items. Having said that, it'due south actually a darn prissy game--outstanding graphics, good UI and a pleasure to play. And that's probably the rub here: this game was ameliorate than the Tetris brand on Windows Phone (see review).
Either style, consider this off-white warning for other Tetris clones in the Marketplace, of which there seem to be quite a few.
While nosotros won't accept a position on the merits of the IP dispute here (y'all can do that in comments if you wish) you can read the programmer's thoughts here on his blog. (And if yous desire to try and snag Tetrada while y'all can, it's here).
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