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The following is a list of lawsuits involving Sega.

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List of lawsuits

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Name	Argued	Decided	Comments
Segasa v. Sega Enterprises, Ltd.	19xx	19xx	Eduardo Morales-Hermo of the Spanish Sega distributor Segasa sued the Japanese Sega Enterprises, Ltd. over the first "use of Sonic".^[1]
Sega Enterprises, Ltd. v. Shenchu Electronic Equipment Factory, Inc.	1994-09-07		In the early to mid 1990s, Sega Enterprises, Ltd. sought legal action against various Chinese clone video game manufacturers. One of these companies, the Shenzhen-based Shenchu Electronic Equipment Factory, was successfully fined and ordered to halt the sale of pirated video games on September 7, 1994.^[2]^[3]
Sega Enterprises, Ltd. v. King-Wei Electronics, Inc.	2000^[4]		It is rumored that the Taiwanese clone console manufacturer King-Wei Electronics was sued by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. sometime in the late 1990s. While King-Wei ceased operations in April 1998^[5], Sega is said to have won the lawsuit in 2000.
Sega Corporation, Inc. v. Level-5, Inc.	2012-12		In December 2012, Sega Corporation sued fellow Japanese game developer Level-5, claiming that its Inazuma Eleven series of football games infringed on the company's "touch screen football" patents established by Touch Striker. Level-5 noted that it had been releasing games in the series without issue since 2008, and Sega's lawsuit seems to have not gone anywhere.^[6]