Candy Crush Saga, a household name in the video game industry with more than 460 million users worldwide, is at the heart of a trademark dispute being heard before a Maltese court.

A Maltese-registered holding company for King.com, that developed the game, is seeking to block US game developers from using the word ‘Candy’ in their releases. The action is being taken against game developers TeamLava and Storm8 Studios.

In September last year, King.com Ltd filed a judicial protest claiming that the defendant companies had created similar games which had been branded under the names Candy Mania and Candy Blast Mania. The company asked the court to order them to desist from using this name and to award financial damages in its favour.

Defendant companies TeamLava and Storm8 replied that King.com Ltd’s claims were already subject to proceedings before an EU trademarks and design court.

The court yesterday decided to temporarily adjourn the two cases filed by King.com Ltd, pending the outcome of OHIM proceedings.

In two partial sentences, the First Hall of the Civil Court, presided over by Judge Mark Chetcuti, said that the action brought by King.com Ltd was about a breach of community trademark .The court held that the counterclaim filed by the defendants raised issues which had to be conclusively addressed before it continued to hear the case.

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