Bannco Corp. has lost the first round in a legal battle with SplitFish AG, SplitFish Gameware, Inc., and Nabon Corp., in a U.S. District court this week over video game controllers. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has ruled in favor of SplitFish and partners, granting a preliminary injunction against Bannco that stops the company from selling video game controllers that allegedly use software code copied from SplitFish's "FragFX" video game controllers.
The video game controllers at the heart of this legal battle are the "FRAGNSTEIN" and "SCORCH" which Bannco produced to "mimic the SPLITFISH FRAGFX design and function" - according to SplitFish.
The judge overseeing the case, T.S. Ellis, ruled that Nabon was the original owner of the software code that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their copyright infringement claim against Nabon. Ellis also ruled that the plaintiffs had made a "sufficient showing that failure to enjoin Bannco's conduct would result in irreparable harm to the plaintiff. Read More
August 12th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Round 1 ?
This is losing round 2 – I think this group already tried this scam when they released the MOBI by MLANI – which is the same as this Bannco fragnstein. They got caught doing that – changed the name – and now they are caught again.
How about go make your own technology people? Maybe then you don’t get sued a third time – just a thought.
August 18th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Yeah, it’s too bad. Maybe they should invest in a research & development team that can come up with new ideas.