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Submitted by Soldierone 376d ago | news

Zynga Suing To Keep “Ville” Exclusive

PushStartSelect: "Zynga is suing PyramidVille for the use of “Ville” in the name. Well there is a reason why they should lose. The world of casual games on Facebook and mobile phones is a very dirty and cheap world. Publishers are constantly ripping each other off and suing each other when it happens. When your games are so basic, its going to happen right? Well Zynga has made headlines a lot recently because of their acquisition of the Words With Friends maker, along with some employee comments about their business tactics. Now they are suing the Pyramidville makers for using the word “Ville” in their game title." (Android, Casual games, iPad, iPhone, PC, Zynga)

neoMAXMLC  +   376d ago
Absolute scumbags.
ArmrdChaos  +   375d ago
Maybe someone should make a CourtVille game and make them the enemy.

I do not know where the hell they began to classify these as games. These are nothing more than a series of strung together advertising pages given a collectable mechanism. Most if not all make you rely on trying to get "others" hooked in order to make progress. Nothing more than a pyramid scheme for advertising. I permanently kicked this habit long ago when I saw how they were changing their games to require you to visit them every day. Free your mind people...dump these asshats.
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dark-hollow  +   376d ago
yeah because zynga as world class brand in the casual gaming world, they dont want people to confuse other games to their own high quality stable of games /s

seriously! i bet 90% of casual facebook gamers dont know who the hell is zynga.
yewles1  +   376d ago
Warner and DC should be on alert.
neoMAXMLC  +   376d ago
Better watch out DentalVille!
TheColbertinator  +   376d ago
lol I went there once.
neoMAXMLC  +   375d ago
It's the fun place to go!
TheColbertinator  +   375d ago
To the deeeentist!
majiebeast  +   376d ago
This has as much chance of winning as bethesda had with trying to sue for the word scroll. The sooner Zynga is gone the better it is for everyone.
dasteru  +   376d ago
Sorry but anything considered a common word, term or phrase cannot be trademarked. Zynga has no claim whatsoever.

The government should seize all of zynga's assets as proceeds of crime for even attempting such a frivolous suit, it is a waste of court time and its long overdue an example is set so companies know not to keep trying crap like this.
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Cennus  +   376d ago
Facebook tried to trademark the word "book". Companies and corporations are out of hand.
Soldierone  +   375d ago
If I'm not mistaken, some companies do things like that for two reasons

1 It somehow slips by and they get it.

2 They attempt it, fail, and that still secures their name rights since that means no one else after them can do it. "We applied for it a long time ago and you said no!"
Perjoss  +   376d ago
look out Superman!
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GraveLord  +   375d ago
Haha! I get it. Next they'll be suing DC for calling the town "Smallville' :D
TheModernKamikaze  +   375d ago
Look out- you know what? I'm not going there.

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