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‘The Sims’

PASADENA, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit revived a copyright infringement claim Tuesday against Electronic Arts over its sale of flash drives designed to look like the gem-shaped icons in its hit computer game "The Sims."

Direct Technologies designed the prototype for the "PlumbBob" drives, which Electronic Arts then had produced in China.

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