Social game giant Zynga sues for patent infringement

Zynga's masterpiece "CityVille" Sina Science and technology Beijing Time August 2 Morning News, the American social game maker Segan at the end of last month to sue Zynga, said the latter, including "Happy Farm" and "gangster war", including a variety of products suspected of infringing their patents. Zynga is the world's largest social gaming vendor and the main gaming provider on Facebook's platform. Segan said in the complaint that Zynga violated a patent related to viewing Web content through games.　　Segan applied for the patent in 2006.　　The plaintiff's lawyer said in the complaint that Segan "suffered damage and economic loss" and should receive "reasonable amount of compensation". A regulatory filing by the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Zynga plans to launch an IPO, hoping to raise 1 billion of billions of dollars.　　The company said last month it plans to expand to the Chinese market and launch the Chinese version of the most popular game, "CityVille". Zynga has not commented on the matter. (Yan Fei)