Apple removes game after Chinese company cloned, trademarked, requested takedown

This company, Shenzhen Lingyou Technology Co., Ltd., received a trademark for “点击英雄” in 2015 in China even though it was already being used in our game BEFORE they trademarked it. In 2014 on an asian web portal (see the date on the page – 日期：2014-11-23), my game was already using “点击英雄”:

Here is the 3rd party’s trademark application: – which has a date of application of February 13, 2015. We don’t have the resources to fight a legal trademark battle in China so I guess that’s the end of our game there.

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