Tetris Company

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The Tetris Company is based in Hawaii and is managed by Henk Rogers. The company currently owns the trademark to the game Tetris, created by Alexey Pajitnov. Tetris is widely considered one of the most popular games ever released. The company licenses the Tetris trademark to video game development companies and maintains a set of guidelines that each licensed game must meet. [link]

This company had a moment of fame in the late 90s when they tried to get every freeware and shareware version of Tetris off the market by sending out cease-and-desist letters. It's widely believed that the company has no valid legal basis to claim rights to any Tetris clone that does not infringe on the Tetris name trademark, since copyright "look-and-feel" suits have not stood up in court in the past, and the company apparently holds no patents related to Tetris.

External links

[Blue Planet Software], 50 percent owner of The Tetris Company

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