Wordle and IP law: What happens when a hot game gets cloned
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the US Patent and Trademark Office
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Monkey Labs Inc.
the Ars Orbital Transmission
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WIRED Media Group
Condé Nast
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Kyle Orland
Josh Wardle
Jotto
Wordle
Mark Methenitis
Ars
Wordle - Word Puzzle
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Summary
Further ReadingWordle is the word: Why Ars is hooked on a free, easy-to-share web gameOn Tuesday afternoon, searching for "Wordle" on the iOS App Store turned up a small handful of apps aping the name and gameplay of the simple word game that has gone viral in recent weeks. Those quick removals paper over the complicated legal and social landscape surrounding copycat apps and the protections developers can claim on their game ideas.Enlarge / A play sheet from Jotto, a pen-and-paper game that predates Wordle by decades.duke CSTo start, it's important to note that the basic five-letter guessing game underlying Wordle is not itself a completely original idea. There are currently three games on the iOS App Store—Wordle!, Wordle - Word Puzzle, and Wordles—that predate the Wardle version by years.
As said here by Kyle Orland