SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has ordered Iron Mace, a startup game developer, to pay 8.5 billion won to gaming giant Nexon in a trade secrets case that hinged on whether game design concepts and rules developed at a company constitute protected business secrets. The Seoul Central District Court ruled on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has ruled that Ironmace, the developer of the online game Dark and Darker, must compensate Nexon for damages related to data misappropriation but did not violate copyright laws. On February 13, the Seoul Central District Court’s Civil Agreement Division 63, presided over by Judge Park Chan-seok, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Nexon and Ironmace, embroiled in a three-year legal battle over the copyright of Dark and Darker, faced off during the first witness hearings at the Seoul Central District Court on December 17. The proceedings centered on the development history of Nexon’s shelved Project P3 and its alleged similarities to [...]