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Lodsys sues Rovio over Angry Birds
ANGRY BIRD ARMY LEADER Rovio is being sued for allegedly infringing patents, according to a report at the BBC.
Patent licensing firm, and what a lovely business to be in that is, Lodsys is suing Rovio for infringing its patents, reports the BBC.
At issue are versions of the Angry Birds game that appear on IOS and Android devices. Angry Birds is also on Windows Phones and Chrome, but we can't say for now whether they are involved too.
Lodsys has quite a nice business going on and already has its lawyers looking at lofty firms including Apple, so Angry Birds, which no one had heard of a couple of years ago, is in good company.
Rovio seems short on information too, by the BBC's account at least. "As soon as we receive more information we will take appropriate action," a spokesperson said.
Lodsys apparently has some other firms in its sights too, and has added Electronic Arts, Take-Two Interactive and Atari to its list of potential patent violators.
Nice ‘work' if you can get it. µ
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I taught about lawsuits the second I saw Angry Birds, as this is a total ripoff of a flash game called 'crush the castle' (just google or youtube it). And provided that the development of Angry Birds started when Crush the Castle came out, it's pretty obvious it's a rip off...
It's not only birds that are angry!
ALL the angels of God are now very very angry!
Damn troll. Buy up other peoples designs, and then sue the hell out of people to get rich, or at the very minimum use strong arm tactics to bully individuals/companies
to get rich quick scheme. The government needs to put an end to these patent trolls. If they didnt design the idea they are suing for, they shouldn't be able to collect on it regardless if they bought it second hand.. Plain and simple.