2014

Michael York

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4/22/2014

Candy Crush Saga and Candy Swipe have settled their dispute

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Candy Crush Saga and Candy Swipe have settled their dispute The independent developer of Candy Swipe is withdrawing its resistance to King's Candy Crush Saga after at first blaming the developers for replicating its game.

Back in February, in the wake of King sought after copyright claims against game with the statement "Candy" or "Saga" in their titles, president of Runsome Apps Albert Ransom composed a public statement that brought up the similitudes between his game, Candy Swipe, and Candy Crush Saga, which was discharged two years after Candy Swipe.

"When you attempted to register your trademark in 2012, I opposed it for 'likelihood of confusion' (which is within my legal right) given I filed for my registered trademark back in 2010 (two years before Candy Crush Saga existed),” Ransom said. “Now, after quietly battling this trademark opposition for a year, I have learned that you now want to cancel my Candy Swipe trademark so that I don't have the right to use my own game's name."

Payoff charged that King obtained the rights to a game called Candy Crusher, which permitted it to test his own particular trademark holding Candy.

On the other hand, recently, Ransom supplanted the public statement presented on his site with the following message:

“I am happy to announce that I have amicably resolved my dispute with King over my CandySwipe trademark and that I am withdrawing my opposition to their mark and they are withdrawing their counterclaim against mine. I have learned that they picked the CANDY CRUSH name before I released my game and that they were never trying to take my game away. Both our games can continue to coexist without confusing players.”

Back in March, The Banner Saga designer Stoic likewise said it arrived at a concurrence with King, which empowers both gatherings to ensure their particular trademarks. King has since derelict its deliberations to trademark the word "candy".