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Software code for video game controllers developed in China is protected in a copyright infringement claim
SplitFish AG, SplitFish Gameware, Inc., and Nabon Corp.
Bannco Corp.
The Eastern District of Virginia ruled in favor of Finnegan clients SplitFish AG, SplitFish Gameware, Inc., and Nabon Corp., granting a preliminary injunction against Bannco Corp. that prohibits Bannco from selling video game controllers that incorporate or use software code copied from our clients' "FragFX" video game controllers. The case is unusual in that the software in question was developed in China and the court applied Chinese law in order to establish that our client was the copyright owner.
SplitFish AG, SplitFish Gameware, Inc., and Nabon Corp. v. Bannco Corp., 1:10-cv-00297, E.D. Va., Judges Ellis, Anderson