Hasbro Files Lawsuit Against Scrabble Clone

When someone pointed out to me the existence of Scrabulous, the Facebook application that’s a clone of classic board game Scrabble I had two very different reactions. The first was overwhelming joy at an effective method of alleviating the drudgery and boredom of my office job. Second came a degree of shock. In a day when lawsuits are as common as pidgeons in a city, I couldn’t believe that there hadn’t been some sort of suit or cease and desist order from Hasbro.

It seems it was only a matter of time as coinciding with the launch of an online version of Scrabble on both Pogo.com and Facebook they’ve announced they are suing Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, the makers of the Scrabulous application. They’ve also served Facebook with a take-down notice due to the copyright infringement.