“Springfield family loses ruling over board game”
I was running a Google newspaper archive search when I stumbled across this November 24, 2005, Eugene Register-Guard newspaper report on a lawsuit against Hasbro over the Stratego boardgame. I’m a bit of a fan of Stratego (Amazon.com search*), and know enough about the game’s history that this lawsuit — in which a family claimed Hasbro stole the creation from their father — caught me by surprise.
Hasbro won the case (which didn’t surprise me), but the story does demonstrate why it’s important to protect documents and various contracts. If Hasbro hadn’t been able to provide the proof that they licensed the game from Jumbo then this could have turned out differently.
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