EA and Zynga announce game case settlement

February 17 News, according to foreign http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/31646.html "> media reports, Zynga and EA recently announced a joint waiver between the two sides on patent infringement and staff digging the corner of the legal proceedings.

Last August, EA sued the social game developer Zynga Game "the Ville" for violating the patent of its "Sims Social Edition" (The Sims Social), which even climbed to the second position of Facebook's most popular game list, Second only to Zynga's other well-known game, "Happy Farm" (FarmVille).

It is understood that Zynga cloned the "Sims Social Edition" game by digging up corners and having access to key information EA executives in the game development process.

In a counterclaim, Zynga refused to recognise EA's allegations of infringement and claimed that it was illegal for EA to try to prevent Zynga from digging out EA employees and terrorizing the workers. In the US state of California, it is illegal for a company to restrict its employees to work with rivals.

In fact, the intense competition between Silicon Valley companies has long been stretched to the talent field, and many companies have been digging the corner for employees at other companies, but sometimes they will agree to abandon the practice. In 2010, some companies reached an agreement with US antitrust authorities and refused to sign a similar "no employment agreement".