Zynga, the online game maker of multimillion-dollar blockbuster games like FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and Words with Friends, sued French gaming company Kobojo today for trademark infringement over the company's Pyramidville game (see it below). At issue are Zynga's trademark claims to all games ending with ville, the French word for…
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Can gaming company Zynga successfully obtain trademark rights to all things ending in ville, the French word for a town or village? Answering that question is a task facing two federal courts. Before it launched its billion dollar IPO, the San Francisco-based tech company threatened to sue computer game makers…