The Scrabulous case has been settled!  According to court documents, the case was voluntarily dismissed at the request of the plaintiffs. Neither the Agarwalla brothers nor Hasbro were available for comment, but a statement posted late Monday on the Lexulous site declared that Pursuant to the settl ...

CNET: Hasbro drops 'Scrabulous' lawsuit As of this morning, there were 425k monthly active users for Habro's Scrabble on Facebook, the international version had 276k and Wordscraper, the Agarwalla Brothers' re-named version, had 195k.

RJ Softwares, Rajat Agarwalla, and Jayant Agarwalla, Case No ...

Thanks to reader Apar Gupta, I have the text of the decision by the High Court of Delhi in Mattel, Inc. v. Agarwalla, a copyright and trademark action by Mattel against the Agarwalla brothers, the makers of Scrabulous. I posted a brief news item about the case earlier, and posted a four-part series ...

The Agarwalla brothers are back, with (presumably) a non-infringing version of online Scrabble called Wordscraper. The Guardian's Johnny Sharp has more here.

Knoweldge.wharton: "War of the Words: Scrabulous is off Facebook, but did hasbro Win the Game? : On the corporate side, the issue is less about money than copyright infringement and brand control. Wharton faculty note, however, that Hasbro may be doing more harm than good to its brand by goin ...

Olympic swimmers are smashing records. Michael Phelps is proof enough of that fact, but how does he do it? Is it the new Speedo suits? The deeper pool? The answer, experts say, doesn't solely rest with the latest space-aged Speedo. The record breaking began at last year's world championships before ...

There's been some salacious commentary (such as WAC's Like a Vixen) about Blawg Review # 171.  I just want to say to anyone who missed the sexual revolution -- on either side of the generation gap -- we're sorry to have started it all.  We just never really left high school. ...

Facebook users in Canada and the US were blocked from using the extremely popular Scrabulous application earlier this week. Facebook blocked the application pursuant to Hasbro's request, as the company has taken the matter to Court with claims that RJ Softwares and the Agarwalla brothers' game infr ...

By Anick Jesdanun, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK – A popular Scrabble knockoff is back on Facebook – with changes that could help it skirt legal trouble. The return came less than two days after the creators of Scrabulous blocked their version of the word game from U.S. and Canadian ...