Killed. Hasbro, the company that holds the copyright and trademark for Scrabble in the U.S. and Canada, filed suit against Rajat and Jayant Agarwall--the developers of the popular Facebook App Scrabulous--last week for copyright infringement. Today it was ruled effective, and Facebook took the application down. If you go to access the app, you get this message: "In response to a legal request from Hasbro, the copyright and trademark holder for Scrabble in the U.S. & Canada, the developers of Scrabulous have suspended their application in the U.S. and Canada until further notice."
Earlier this year, Hasbro had approached the Agarwall bros with a hefty check for a "claim to the Scrabble brand," according to Silicon Alley Insider. That amount may be left to nada now that the app is down and killed. That sucksulous.
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