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Guys, it's really easy to remove IP law infringing app once you ask apple to do so. Apple is under the impression that it's between two people, but if the 'defendant' doesn't really have any solid defense whatsoever, apple will remove it quite quickly. Actually this can be abused, as in that story between two app developers who developed a similar game, which in a real court would be totally fine, but one sent a bogus complaint to apple about the other and being of small resources, the developer couldn't fight it and got his application removed.

I also remember that apple actually quite regularly blocks trademarks in keywords, for example, there was this Yahtzee like game that was being developed by one developer I knew, a valid use for a keyword 'Yahtzee' and was rejected due to Yahtzee being not allowed.

So this kind of copycat keyword infringing stuff although looks bad, is quite easy to fix if you just send an email.




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