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Atari lawyers taking an interest in iPhone Breakout clones

Hobgob1in | September 19, 2008 | News | Company Misc 
The gaming giant has turned it's legal eye toward Breakout and Pong clones on the iPhone's App Store; asking for developers to remove their games.
But while Breakout is clearly within Atari's legal remit to protect, Pong - or 'electronic bat and ball games', are surely a different matter...
Atari itself was the subject of the first ever gaming law suit in which Sanders Associates and Magnavox successfully sued Atari for copying its ’electronic bat and ball’ game , which became Pong. Atari became a licensee of the concept, but not the owner.
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