No more Scrabulous, so no need for lawsuit
With the last remnants of Scrabulous gone, toy maker Hasbro has decided to withdraw its lawsuit against the makers of the once-popular online word game.
Hasbro’s reasoning for the withdrawal this week wasn’t made clear, but Scrabulous publisher RJ Softwares refashioned the game shortly after the suit was filed in July so that it no longer closely resembled the popular board game Scrabble, which Hasbro owns.
RJ Softwares owners Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla had created Scrabulous to fulfill a need they believed wasn’t met by Hasbro and rival toy maker Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble outside North America. The Agarwallas made Scrabulous available to Facebook, where it drew well over half a million users and made their small company lots of money.
Apparently irked by that, Hasbro brought out an online version of Scrabble last spring, then sued RJ Softwares for trademark infringement. Before that, Hasbro supposedly tried to buy Scrabulous from the Agarwallas.
RJ Softwares agreed to pull Scrabulous from Facebook, rename it and reconfigure it to look less like Scrabble. It now exists as Lexulous and still is considered more popular than Scrabble.

