Zynga known game "Gangster Wars" sued for trademark infringement

Beijing time August 26 morning news, according to foreign media reports, leisure gaming company Digital Chocolate has sued Zynga, said the company has the "Mafia War" (Mafia Wars) title of the game.　　Zynga's gang wars have been hugely successful on Facebook, but Digital Chocolate said the company first launched a game in the name of the Mafia War.　　According to the indictment, Digital chocolate that Zynga "wrongly declared to the public, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Court that the company first created the" Mafia War "trademark and owned the trademark's preferred title. Digital Chocolate said the company had told Zynga that the name was in conflict last year, when Zynga made a written statement that it would deactivate the name but did not.　　Zynga then spent millions of of dollars to promote the Mafia War, making the game the most famous game of Zynga after "Farmville". Digital Chocolate asked the northern Santa Clara District Court in California to issue a ban that would allow Zynga to deactivate the name of the Mafia war and put in more money than previously advertised in the game campaign to publish "correction ads". Digital Chocolate's "gangster wars" is an older mobile game that has not received much attention from many users before.　　At the same time, the company does not hold the trademark of the Mafia War. Zynga has made a public response to digital chocolate's indictment. "We were shocked and disappointed by Digital Chocolate's lawsuit," the response said. The timing of this lawsuit looks like opportunistic, and we plan to defend ourselves vigorously. ”