De maker van Cooking Mama klaagt aan met betrekking tot Cooking Mama: Cookstar

De maker van Cooking Mama klaagt aan met betrekking tot Cooking Mama: Cookstar

Cooking Mama’s maker, Office Create, heeft Planet Entertainment aangeklaagd wegens verschillende problemen met betrekking tot Cooking Mama: Cookstar.

De twee bedrijven vochten om de titel op het moment dat de game uitkwam. Volgens Office Create is Cooking Mama: Cookstar tegen de wens van het bedrijf uitgebracht. Verder vond Office Create dat het niet aan de kwaliteitseisen voldeed, dus werd een PS4-versie gepromoot ondanks het feit dat het geen deel uitmaakte van de oorspronkelijke licentieovereenkomst.

Planet Entertainment werd uiteindelijk voor de rechter gedaagd, waar het werd aangeklaagd. Cooking Mama: Cookstar maakte inbreuk op intellectuele eigendomsrechten, volgens de Internationale Kamer van Koophandel, die in het voordeel was van Office Create, dat ook te maken had met een verkoopbeperking. Bovendien zet Office Create alle juridische stappen om de titel van de markt te halen.

Office Create’s verklaring

Dear Sir, Thank you very much for your patronage of the “Cooking Mama” series.

As we reported to you in April 2020, Planet Entertainment LLC (headquartered in Connecticut, USA; hereinafter referred to as “Planet”) violated our license agreement and we released the Nintendo Switch version of Cooking Mama: Cookstar, which did not meet the quality standards, without our permission, and started sales activities in North America, Europe, and Australia. In addition, in the United States and Europe, we began advertising the sale of the Sony PlayStation 4 version of “Cooking Mama: Cookstar,” which we did not grant in our license agreement in the first place. In response, on March 30, 2020, we notified Planet of the immediate termination of the license agreement and immediately prohibited the use of our intellectual property rights related to “Cooking Mama.”

Despite this, Planet continues to sell the Nintendo Switch version of “Cooking Mama: Cookstar” without our permission, and even sells the Sony PlayStation 4 version of “Cooking Mama: Cookstar” worldwide, excluding Asia. It’s time to start.

As such, we have sued Planet and its CEO Steve Grossman personally before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration for the unauthorized production and production of the Switch and PlayStation 4 versions of Cooking Mama: Cookstar. We had filed for arbitration proceedings seeking a ban on sales, etc., and on October 3, 2022, the ICC Arbitration Court made a final ruling.

In this final ruling, the ICC Arbitration Court found that Planet and Mr. Grossman did not have the authority to manufacture and sell “Cooking Mama: Cookstar” for both the Switch and PlayStation 4 versions, and that the unauthorized “Cooking Mama : Cookstar has been found to infringe our intellectual property rights. In addition, the ICC arbitration court prohibited Planet and Mr. Grossman from any act that misleads the company on the grounds of intellectual property rights infringement, unfair competition, etc. Ordered to pay damages.

In order to protect the “Cooking Mama” series, which is an important asset, and to gain the patronage of our customers, we have taken all legal measures to remove “Cooking Mama: Cookstar” manufactured and sold by Planet from the market. We sincerely apologize for the great confusion and inconvenience caused to our long-time patrons of Cooking Mama due to the illegal acts of Planet and Mr. Grossman.

Vermeldenswaard is dat Cooking Mama: Cookstar momenteel niet beschikbaar is in de Switch eShop. Het is denkbaar dat er nog echte exemplaren rondzweven.