Zynga has settled its trademark infringement lawsuit against another developer that attempted to add a "Ville" suffix to its game titles, this time French studio Kobojo, maker of
PyramidVille.
The social game giant has made it a point to sue a number of companies (e.g.
Dungeonville developer Night Owl Games) in an effort to protect the "Ville" branding that Zynga uses across many of its popular titles like
CityVille and
FarmVille, which make up some of the biggest games on Facebook.
Zynga
filed its lawsuit against Kobojo in May, 15 months after
PyramidVille originally released on Facebook (it also released a title called
PyramidVille Adventures for mobile). It originally sought damages equaling three times the profits Kobojo has received from the series.
But as a representative for Kobojo tells Gamasutra, "Although the terms of the parties' settlement are confidential, the parties can confirm that neither party made any payment as part of the settlement."
Kobojo, however, has recently changed the name of
PyramidVille to
PyramidValley, and
PyramidVille Adventures to
PyramidValley Adventures. The Facebook game's popularity has declined quite a bit over the months, dropping from its peak of nearly 3 million monthly active users
to now 430,000.
