Riot Games maker of League of Legends reportedly filed a lawsuit case against Moontoon for copyright infringement.
Raid Raptor on Facebook commented: Riots was waiting for ML to grow big to strike hard, who sues a company for 1K dollars? gotta let them grow and win millions. for example I release a fish on the pond and wait until it's big enough then catch it again.
Meanwhile, an excerpt from a lawsuit where the link was shared on Moontoon's Mobile Legends page says:
This lawsuit involves the ongoing, willful and bad faith infringement of Riot’s intellectual property rights, including its copyrights and trademarks, by Shanghai Moonton Technology Co, Ltd. (“Moonton”) and those working in concert with it. Moonton has developed and distributed a succession of mobile games designed to trade off Riot’s well-known and valuable intellectual property: Magic Rush: Heroes, Mobile Legends: 5v5 MOBA, and Mobile Legends: Bang bang (collectively, the “Infringing Games”). Each of the Infringing Games contains (or at one time contained) a vast array of elements that were directly and deliberately appropriated from LoL, including but not limited to LoL’s characters, artwork, map designs, and unit and monster designs. And, to add insult to injury, Moonton marketed and distributed certain of its games with a logo that is confusingly similar to Riot’s LoL logo, using the exact same font and color scheme as Riot’s LoL logo. 3. Moonton not only knows that its cond.
Meanwhile, here's the LINK to the above mentioned lawsuit case: https://dlbjbjzgnk95t.cloudfront.net/0942000/942184/https-ecf-cacd-uscourts-gov-doc1-031126177996.pdf