![]() The position of Conceptis in the world of puzzles has always been improving implementation of existing popular puzzles rather than inventing new ones and bringing them to the attention of the whole world. Fortunately it is possible to look at this from a different perspective where new puzzle concepts are freely used by puzzle creators all over the world for the common benefit of the concept inventors, those puzzle creators, and the puzzle fans. ![]() And so, looking back at the history of popular puzzle concepts, there would have been a long chain of “stealing” turning thousands of puzzle creators all over the world into “criminals”. Following this language one could also state that “stolen” ideas of Sudoku, Kakuro, Nonogram, Battleships and many others are being used in millions of commercial puzzles published every day. One could possibly use the word “steal” in this case. If you have some specific comments in this matter, we'd appreciate to see them at. The Strimko puzzle is explicitly under our copyright, and isn't in a public domain. The Strimko concept is OUR ORIGINAL INVENTION launched in November, 2008, at Since then, Strimko has been officially published (both in weekly & monthly interactive and printable versions) on and And recently it has been published in the September issue of GAMES magazine. In fact, Conceptis Puzzles is misappropriating our Strimko (concept, and now tries to start using it without any authorization or licence from our end. They didn't accept our warning and did their step, simply STEALING our intellectual property for their commercial use. Some months ago I warned Conceptis Puzzles that if they will use the idea of Strimko (under any name) with the same features as our Strimko, we will understand that as a direct and clear infringement of our intellectual property rights. There's no excuse for conceptis stealing and releasing these puzzles. strimko isn't some generic / flash-esque puzzle game with loose ip rights applied, they have full legal backing to their rights. It makes conceptis look like a bunch of amatuer thieves and i hope to hell that when people realize that they are stealing their material, they outright stop using this site and put conceptis out of business. conceptis has done absolutely nothing to distinguish their game from strimko except minor presentation changes (having the number selections and notes be popups instead of the way has it set up), and nowhere did they give any credit to the design to the people who have been releasing puzzles under that design for multiple months. Which is something the grabarchuks are releasing in a published pay to by collection of strimko puzzles. it would be one thing if any of the puzzle had been changed by conceptis, like using letters instead of numbers, but the only thing different between the 2 is conceptis has made more then 7 number puzzles. rgw grabarchuk family has sole copyright and publishing rights to this particular puzzle variation. ![]() The reason i am annoyed by it is all the postings i've seen about this great "new" game all make it seem like something conceptis just came up with themselves.
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