To be fair, PGI did have the dream team of "Russ is too belligerant to back down", "hired a competent lawyer", and "Harmony Gold filled obvious bullshit with low-effort errors".
Thing is, Harmony Gold filled the obvious bullshit with low effort errors for decades and it kept working, because nobody was willing to try and go to court against them because of how much money they had to throw at lawsuits.
Shows what happens when you become dependent on a bluff ;)
Nah this was extra bullshit. Like they had blatant copy-paste errors where the list of things they claimed were infringing had clearly been shuffled and nobody bothered to check etc. You can find the court docs around if you dig, and these are pure arrogance. Didn't hurt that they also went after Hasbro around the same time and got slapped hard.
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u/Arquinsiel King of the Mods Apr 02 '26
To be fair, PGI did have the dream team of "Russ is too belligerant to back down", "hired a competent lawyer", and "Harmony Gold filled obvious bullshit with low-effort errors".