Zynga Sues game company Imagenesis for use of ‘ville’

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Zynga which owns famous social media games ‘CityVille’, ‘PetVille’ nad ‘FarmVille’ filed the lawsuit against Imagenesis Corp. for using its ‘ville’ trademarks. Imagenesis Corp. is going to launch a new game named ‘MafiaVille’, Intellectualpropertynews.com reported.

Zynga claimed that over 65 million people already played its "Ville" games on Facebook and mobile phone apps before Imagenesis named their game as ‘MafiaVille’. 

Imagenesis decided to use the name ‘Mafiaville’ and filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Imagenesis also filed for a declaratory judgment that ‘MafiaVille’ does not infringe Zynga's trademarks. However, Imagenesis failed to have counsel appear on its behalf and the action was dismissed, Intellectualpropertynews added.

For more information, click to see the filing.

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