Robert Bosch LLC d/b/a Bosch v. Lincoln Diesel Specialties, LLC (D. Mass. 20-cv-11033).

RMS sued Anker Play Products and Leon Summers, RMS 2019 former CEO and Anker 2019s present CEO, for copyright and trade dress infringement, unfair competition and trade secret misappropriation in connection with RMS 2019 201cDino Operation 201d game. The game is a take-off on the classic 201cOperation 201d game in which players try to remove bones from the dinosaur without touching the sides of the hole in which the bones are located.
RMS (whose game is on the left, above) developed the game and began selling it in 2014, while Summers was the CEO of RMS, and registered copyright in the game, although they do not appear to have a registration on the trade dress of the game. Anker sells games called 201cDino Operation 201d and 201cDino Dissection 201d that each utilize a dinosaur caricature and bone play parts that are nearly identical to the RMS game. RMS asserts that Anker would not have been able to have replicated these components without access to RMS 2019 technical drawings, which Summers would have been able to obtain while he was with RMS. RMS suggests that such slavish copying is Anker 2019s business model, noting the existence of five similar lawsuits filed against Anker in the last three years. The trade secret claim seems uncertain 2013 RMS 2019 conclusorily assert that they treated the trade secret in the design files confidentially and did not allow access unless authorized, with no real description of the actual steps they took, and the notion that the publicly-available game could not have been replicated without access to the design files seems questionable 2013 but it will be difficult to deny that the appearance of the games are very similar.