the tetris brand logo type limited liability company industry interactive entertainment founder alexey pajitnov henk rogers headquarters honolulu hawaii us area served worldwide services licensor of the tetris brand owner tetris holding llc 50 % blue planet software 50 % website www.tetris.com the tetris company llc ttc is based in hawaii and is owned by henk rogers and alexey pajitnov . 1 the company is the exclusive licensee of tetris holding llc the company that owns tetris rights worldwide 2 and the tetris company licenses the tetris brand to third parties . 3 contents 1 business 2 elorg 3 legal enforcement 4 references 5 external links business edit tetris originally conceived by alexey pajitnov is widely considered one of the most popular games ever released which was reflected by its mobile edition being the top seller in the industry in 2006 . 4 the tetris company licenses the tetris trademark including trade dress aspects to video game development companies and maintains a set of guidelines that each licensed game must meet such as the button controls for game functions must be consistent 3 and has copyrighted and trademarked every aspect of the game such as the playfield dimensions the shapes of the blocks and the next piece so that only they can make tetris games . elorg edit elektronorgtechnica elorg was the soviet agency and later privatized russian company initially created to license state owned software and hardware to private industry . initially elorg was a partner in the tetris company and at one point was a 50 percent owner until rogers and pajitnov bought elorg s remaining rights around 2005 . 5 6 tetris holding a newly created company into which pajitnov placed his tetris rights and rogers blue planet software company each own 50 percent of the tetris company who is now the issuer for all tetris licenses . 6 legal enforcement edit ttc drew attention in the late 1990s when it attempted to remove freeware and shareware versions of tetris from the market by sending out cease and desist letters claiming both trademark and copyright infringement 7 having copyrighted and trademarked every aspect of tetris such as the playfield dimensions the next piece and the shapes of the blocks . creators of tetris clones claimed that the company had no valid legal basis to restrict tetromino games that did not infringe on the tetris name trademark since copyright look and feel suits have not stood up in court in the past lotus v. borland and because the letters made no patent claims . 8 in august 2008 apple inc. removed tris a version of tetris from its online app store . the software author had written a tetromino game for the iphone ios without authorization from the tetris company . 9 in march 2009 the tetris company sued biosocia operator of the omgpop gaming portal 10 11 because one of its multiplayer games blockles was too similar to tetris . 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 may 2010 lawyers representing the tetris company sent google a digital millennium copyright act violation notice regarding tetris clones available for android . 12 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 game contained no references to tetris . 13 14 15 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 . 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 . 16 17 a 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 . 18 references edit tetris a history . retrieved 2011 02 17 . hasbro and the tetris company announce new face to face games based on world famous tetris video game . businesswire . 2013 01 08 . retrieved 2014 04 17 . a b metts jonathan 2006 04 06 . tetris from the top an interview with henk rogers . nintendo world report . retrieved 2014 04 17 . gibson ellie 2006 08 30 . tetris tops the mobile charts once again . gamesindustry.biz . retrieved 2014 04 17 . hartley matt 2009 06 06 . rock around the blocks the globe and mail . toronto . retrieved 2011 02 17 . a b remo chris 2009 09 10 . the man who won tetris . gamasutra . retrieved 2014 04 17 . andrew james bednarz december 24 1997 the tetris company story bjorn stenberg a trademark cease and desist for rockbox s tetrox tetrox renamed to rockblox for trademark reasons . september 19 2006 . retrieved on september 5 2009 . iphone tetris clone tris pulled from app store on kotaku ross dannenberg . patent arcade new case tetris co. v. biosocia inc. s.d.n.y copyright retrieved on september 5 2009 . archived april 21 2009 at the wayback machine . information about tetris vs. biosocia inc. retrieved on december 28 2009 . dmca notice sent to google retrieved may 28 2010 . google pulls tetris from android tetris blocked techeye . retrieved 2011 02 18 . lendino jamie 2010 05 28 . google s android market purges tetris clones . pc magazine . retrieved 2011 02 18 . tetris clones yanked off market . droidgamers . retrieved 2011 02 18 . the tetris company forces tetrada out of wp7 marketplace news know your mobile . retrieved 2011 02 09 . tetris clone tetrada removed from windows phone 7 marketplace after takedown request tetris news pocket gamer . retrieved 2011 02 09 . brown mark 2012 06 20 . us judge declares tetris clone infringing . wired uk . retrieved 2012 07 01 . external links edit official website blue planet software 50 percent owner and the representative of the tetris company v 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