Tencent gaming unit must pay US$8.5m in 'freemium' dispute

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[MARSHALL] Tencent Holdings' Supercell gaming unit was ordered to pay US$8.5 million in royalties to Japan's Gree Inc in a patent trial over features used in popular online games. Read more at The Business Times.

Gree claimed Supercell's Clash of Clans, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars games infringed its patents for methods for controlling and presenting downloadable games to smartphone players, controlling their in-game purchases and transfers of objects between players, and enhancing the visual effects for multi-player mobile games.

Tencent bought an 84 per cent share of Supercell for US$8.6 billion in 2016. The Finnish company makes some of the most popular games for mobile devices. By itself, Supercell ranked as the fourth-biggest publisher by revenue, according to a March report by researchers at App Annie. Shenzhen, China-based Tencent, which gets a third of its revenue from online games, topped the list.

Supercell had filed its own suit against Gree in 2017, but the case was dismissed last year after a federal judge invalidated a Supercell patent for obtaining login information.

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