Riot's associate general counsel Dan Nabel said in an email that the company strongly disagrees with the decision and is considering an appeal. "It would have been duplicative, inefficient, and wholly unfair to proceed with this case in the U.S., where Moonton would lack access to key evidence and witnesses." "For years, the parties have been litigating highly related copyright claims in China that raise many of the same issues that Riot is now trying to re-raise in the U.S.,” Moonton attorney Ajay Krishnan of Keker, Van Nest & Peters said in a statement. It "remains unfair to allow Riot and Tencent to bring a two-front war against Moonton unless and until Tencent decides to show up on both battlefields," Fitzgerald said.įitzgerald said Riot could refile specific claims that do not survive in China in the U.S., but that its California lawsuit brought "precisely the type of allegations that the Court already concluded can be adequately redressed in China." District Judge Michael Fitzgerald said.įitzgerald said it was unclear which elements of the "League of Legends" game were made by Riot and which were made by Tencent, which is important to Moonton's defenses.
West Los Angeles-based Riot's lawsuit was dismissed Tuesday because the dispute could adequately be heard in China and Riot's parent company, Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, refused to join the case and provide crucial information, U.S. (Reuters) - ByteDance's Shanghai Moonton Technology Co Ltd does not have to face Riot Games Inc's copyright lawsuit over allegations that Moonton copied parts of the mobile version of Riot's hit "League of Legends," according to a ruling in Los Angeles federal court.
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