League of Legends Intellectual Property Right Announcement
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all supporters of League of Legends and eSport development. Additionally, we would like to thank our partners for cooperating with us with highest value.
Recently, we have noticed a few corporations and parties utilizing materials of League of Legends and Taipei Assassins for commercial purpose, without the consent from Garena or Riot Games.
This has puzzled our players and severely violated our intellectual property rights. With this announcement, we will start examine these violations and ask for termination of such unauthorized activities. If we do not receive any response and these illegal activities persist, we will pursue legal actions to protect rights for Garena and our customers.
Take the recent promotional event from Thermaltake Technology (Tt) as an example:
We have discovered that Tt incorporated images of League of Legends into their product promotion events. Tt was informed by us on IP violation and was asked to not use them for commercial activity, however, we have not heard from Tt after the notice was sent.
We have contacted Tt PR to notify the violation, no response from them.
These illegal promotions from Tt are still on-going, and we have made an announcement of this violation incident on our official website.
League of Legends is one of the most popular online games on the market with millions of players around the world. Garena will continue to optimize our service to provide the best gaming experience for our customers, and work with our partners to achieve mutual success.
