Scrabulous totaly removed from Facebook, except in India

Since Friday August, 22nd Facebook has removed the controversial “Scrabulous” game from all the international versions of its platform, except for India.

The famous dispute started in U.S. and Canada in July when Hasbro, the ‘Scrabble’ trademark holder in these two countries, sued Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla, the developers of the Facebook’s version of ‘Scrabulous’ for trademark infringement.

The disputed originally stayed docked in these two countries because internationally it is Mattel that own the name ‘Scrabble’. Unfortunately Mattel eventually decided it was its right too to enforce the action against the Indian developers.

As mentioned, the game is still available on the Indian version of Facebook because in that country the local court has yet to state the verdict, but it may not need long since “Mattel approached the Indian Courts in February 2008″ according to Agarwall.

Attending that decision, Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla are maintaining up the Scrabulous.com Web site and they balanced their loss of Facebook space by introducing ‘WordScraper’, a ‘Scrabble’ clone with part of the look and feel altered to avoid copyright restrictions.

Links

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/;

Scrabulous: http://www.scrabulous.com/.