The world’s largest toy maker is working out the financial cost of that expression after suffering a huge blow to one of its key products when an English High Court judge ruled that it could not claim ‘a perpetual monopoly’ over its scrabble-style tiles.
California-based Mattel – which owns the rights to the iconic game outside the US and Canada -- had claimed that rival company Zynga infringed its trademarks through its popular smartphone games, including Scramble With Friends, reports London-based newspaper Metro.
However Mr Justice Arnold backed Zynga stating: ‘The “tile mark” covers an infinite number of permutations of different sizes, positions and combinations of letter and number.’
The judge added that Mattel had ‘no real prospect of arguing the contrary’.
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