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On January 20, 2022, Riot Games sued Suga and Imba, two video game companies based in Asia, in the Central District of California, alleging that the defendants infringed on Riot’s intellectual property by creating a knockoff of Riot’s popular multiplayer game, League of Legends. The lawsuit claimed that the defendants intentionally mimicked League of Legends’s distinctive visual style, characters, and artwork, as well as other visual, audiovisual, and textual elements in I Am Hero: AFK Tactical.
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