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Theranos founder accuses former boyfriend and business partner of abuse.

Investors valued Theranos at $9 billion at the company’s peak before its decline and eventual shut down in 2018. Ms Holmes faces 11 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, each of which carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. “I think I mishandled the entire process of the Wall Street Journal reporting,” Ms Holmes said. Ms Holmes said she wanted to prevent disclosure of the company’s “trade secrets” while admitting that she fumbled the response to the article.

Responding to questions from assistant US attorney Robert Leach, Ms Holmes said she did not remember the meaning behind text messages that showed she wanted to “get ahead” of the story, which alleged that the company’s proprietary devices did not work as advertised.

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She denied that Theranos tried to intimidate the author of The Wall Street Journal report, John Carreyrou, who has been a frequent fixture in the San Jose federal court where her trial has been taking place. Ms Holmes said repeatedly on Tuesday she could not recall details about the tactics prosecutors said the blood-testing start-up used to silence whistleblowers. Why is this still going on in 2020? Is the copyright on a falling blocks game concept never going to expire? This is a poster child case for why current copyright law is harmful to everyone.Prosecutors interrogated Elizabeth Holmes about her response to the investigative article that pierced her company’s rosy image in 2015 as the Theranos founder took the stand for a fifth day of testimony in her criminal fraud trial. The developer, Mario Karagiannis, rejected the claims of copyright infringement on the grounds that copyright does not cover gameplay design, but still removed the game, citing lack of resources to fight what he called "bullying".Ī US District Court judge ruled in June 2012, that the Tetris clone Mino from Xio Interactive infringed on the Tetris Company's copyrights by replicating elements such as the playfield dimensions and the shapes of the blocks.

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In February 2011, The Tetris Company continued to make copyright claims against independently developed Tetris clones, most notably against Tetrada on the Windows Phone 7 marketplace. Google responded by removing the 35 games listed in the notice as it was legally obliged to do, even though, according to one developer, the games contained no references to Tetris. In May 2010, lawyers representing The Tetris Company sent Google a Digital Millennium Copyright Act Violation Notice regarding Tetris clones available for Android. By September 2009, Omgpop removed the game from the website and replaced it with an alternate that the developers created, based on Puyo Puyo. In March 2009, The Tetris Company sued BioSocia, operator of the Omgpop gaming portal because one of its multiplayer games, Blockles, was too similar to Tetris.

#Tetris friends shutting down software

The software author had written a tetromino game for the iPhone iOS without authorization from The Tetris Company. removed Tris, a version of Tetris from its online App Store. It's already available for the New Zealand region, but playable anywhere if you're crafty. N3TWORK (who BPS has invested in) also has another upcoming Tetris title called Tetris Royale. My theory is BPS and N3TWORK saw this as an issue, no Tetris on the App Store, and needed to answer to it, so they paid EA to delist early, and released their barebones Tetris game. They make a crap load of money from licensing it to publishers, and having exclusivity just ramps up that price.ģ days ago all of EA's Tetris games were delisted from App Stores, while some may have assumed the games would have remained up at least until April 21st. The Tetris Company is very protective of their brand, as they should be.

EA buys JAMDAT later in the year, along with that license.Ĭan you guess the date JAMDAT bought BLW? April 20, 2005.

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JAMDAT, a publisher of mobile games buys Blue Lava Wireless, and also acquires a 15 year exclusive license to publish mobile Tetris games.ģ.

Henk Rogers creates a company called Blue Lava Wireless, and his other company Blue Planet Software gives them the right to make a few Tetris games.Ģ. I'll spare you the very litigious and long history Tetris has had with licensing, and talk about how EA got the license to make a mobile Tetris game.ġ.