"In 2017, the game was re-written from scratch with a ton of new features and launched as Warzone, the sequel to WarLight." that's what fizzer writes himself....
Beren, I think part of it at the same time was the transition away from flash to unity, so a lot of it might have required some level of recoding and modifying the code.
they are trying to say that : Frizzer first published his strategy game in 2017, however he didn’t file a trademark for the name until October 2020. Meanwhile, Call of Duty: Warzone was released in March 2020, with a trademark first filed in June 2020.
I am not sure, but considering the lawsuit is already on, isn't it too late for that? If Fizzer looses, he has to pay, and i doubt Activision would be lenient when they can get money, no matter how little it is.
From my experience, the suit has little to do with winning. Activision can throw out the lawsuit, knowing that Fizzer has very limited resources and they can keep it going in the courts until he either runs out of money or until the point is moot (when they have a new version of Call of Duty out). Goliath always wins in these cases.