![]() When we reached out to King, the company said it doesn’t plan to go after companies that use “Candy” legitimately, but it believes Hsu’s game does infringe. Please remove this app as soon as possible.” “The prominent use of our mark by infringes our rights and is likely to lead to consumer confusion and damage to our brand. “We are the owners of ‘Candy’ in the E.U., U.S., and elsewhere,” reads King’s App Store notice. He showed GamesBeat a copy of the complaint. One developer claims that King is already going after games with “Candy” in the title.Īll Candy Casino Slots developer Benjamin Hsu says that King filed an App Store notice with Apple about his game that asked him to remove the slots title from the iOS store. ![]() King now has legal grounds to go after many of these copycats. Most of them are puzzle games similar to Candy Crush Saga. A search for “candy” on Google’s Play app market turns up scores of games that use the term in their titles. ![]() The Google Play market and iOS App Store are both filled with games that latch onto the success of other, more popular titles. Competing developers could attempt to fight the infringement claims, but King now has the trademark on its side to protect its social puzzle game that has players matching up three or more pieces of candy to eliminate them from a play field. ![]()
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