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12 Mar, 2008 3:04 am
... built-in infrastructure [for online interactions], so you get the network effect in spades." [4] Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla are two entrepreneurs whose application became a sensation on Facebook. The brothers, based out of Kolkata, India, ... Scrabble, and the same number
of letter tiles with the same point values." [20] However, perhaps the fact that the Agarwallas' version of Scrabble is online, offering unique features separate from those of
the traditional, physical board game could be enough ...
16 Dec, 2008 5:13 pm
... suit on Friday without citing a specific reason. Represented by a Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler team led by IP partner Kim Landsman, Hasbro sued Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, brothers from Calcutta, India, in July. The brothers have said they developed Scrabulous, which
quickly ... 't find an online version of Scrabble that they liked. Shortly after Hasbro filed suit, the Agarwalla brothers modified their game
and relaunched it under the name "Wordscraper." The AP reported that RJ ...
29 Jan, 2008 6:46 am
... and Mattel have now warned both Facebook and the app's creators (Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla) that
they're infringing the Scrabble owners' IP rights. ... app owes Mattel-it's great advertising. One also has the sense that, had the Agarwallas disclosed the idea of a
Scrabble-based Facebook app to Mattel, their corporate legal ... of Mattel to "demand a cut" here, I also think that the dilemmas facing innovators like the Agarwallas are real
and should lead to some sympathy from the courts. No Tags Share ...
29 Jan, 2008 7:02 pm
... , including games like "Scrabulous," a spitting image of the word game Scrabble. Hasbro and Mattel have now warned both Facebook and the app's creators (Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla) that they're infringing the Scrabble owners' intellectual property rights. A groundswell
of ... ' mad]. But Scrabulous's more scrupulous defenders concede the copying here is a tad bit scrofulous. The Agarwallas are now making about 25K per month from the app, and
presumably Mattel deserves a cut. But ...
2 Mar, 2008 12:34 am
... article about what is a difficult problem for the Hasbro and Mattel, which own the rights to the board game Scrabble. Scrabulous plainly rips off Scrabble, so the companies could
use the law to crush Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, who created Scrabulous (and make $25,000 a month on
advertising). But the Agarwallas have made Scrabble popular among huge numbers of young people, and they are now: 1. motivated to buy the board game, ...
29 Sep, 2008 4:05 pm
Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, the Indian brothers who came up with the Scrabble-style word game for
Facebook called Scrabulous, told fans that their country's courts ruled that their game did not violate Mattel Inc.'s copyrights. It did, however, consider the name Scrabulous a
trademark violation and ordered the Agarwallas to stop using the word, the brothers said. Read the article: Los Angeles Times
16 Jan, 2008 9:30 am
... on running. Scrabulous is currently one of Facebook's ten most popular applications - little programs that Facebook members can add to the profiles they maintain on the site.... The
Scrabulous add-on was not created by Facebook but was built for the site by Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla - software developers based in Kolkata. Apparently Hasbro and Mattel don't look kindly on outsourcing to India -- unlike, say, law ...
30 Jul, 2008 6:58 am
... of an ongoing legal battle over ownership of intellectual property because Hasbro, the owner of the corporate trademark and producer of the analogous physical game, saw the
appropriation of the rules of their game in an online environment by Scrabulous creators Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla as an act of infringement. According to "Makers of Scrabble try to shut down online version" in The Los Angeles Times, this action has ...
31 Jul, 2008 8:35 pm
... Facebook-stalking counsel from Hasbro and Mattel, what is the solution? Hasbro's open contempt for the consumer does nothing to change the fact that they have a solid case. They've
even offered to pay Scrabulous' creators Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla handily just to go away. But as
Real Networks CEO Robert Glaser points out, the real problem is that Hasbro and Mattel must merge their rights. They'd better get on that soon or I'm ...
4 Aug, 2008 5:12 am
... ? Blog content licensing might be dying for lack of buyers? People buy blog content? I can hear my mother asking "why buy the cow . . . . " The IP Dispute of the Week, of course, is
Hasbro's suit against Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla for their Facebook hit Scrabulous. Scrabble itself
was invented during the Depression by Alfred Mosher Butts, an out-of-work architect. How did he do it? As the New York Times explained in its review of Steve ...
4 Aug, 2008 10:50 am
... On Facebook, an 11-Letter Synonym for Scrabulous Turns Out to Be Wordscraper People who were addicted to playing Scrabulous on Facebook have migrated by the thousands to
Wordscraper, a Scrabble-like game created by the two brothers who built Scrabulous, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla. Last week the brothers removed Scrabulous from Facebook.com for North American users because of a lawsuit from Hasbro, which owns the North ...
5 Aug, 2008 10:26 pm
... dying for lack of buyers? (people pay for Blog content while I give it away for free?????) The IP Dispute of the Week, of course, is Hasbro's suit against Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla for their Facebook hit Scrabulous. Scrabble itself was invented during the Depression by
Alfred Mosher Butts, an out-of-work architect. How did he do it? As the New York Times explained in its review of Steve Fastis book, Word Freak ...
25 Jul, 2008 9:08 pm
... damages from the creators. Scrabulous is the most popular game on Facebook, attracting more than 600,000 players daily. It was created during the summer of 2007 by two young
brothers from Calcutta India, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla. The brothers and their company RJ Softwares
are all named as defendants in the lawsuit which was filed on July 24, 2008. Submitted by Sylvie Lang, Summer Student Coverage here (Associated Press) Bookmarks: Delicious ...
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