When a Game Concept Isn’t Enough: Finding Intellectual Property In Social Games

[Editor's Note: This is a guest post by David Bailey, a partner at Kauth, Pomeroy, Peck, Bailey LLP .] The saga of the Facebook hit game Mafia Wars has made the issue of intellectual property obvious to any serious social game creator. But given how these laws have developed in the rest of the gaming industry, many games likely contain intellectual property. This will gradually reshape social gaming. In 2008, Mafia Wars creator David Maestri — a developer at top social gaming company