Trains & Trucks Tycoon

There was a big lawsuit from former designer Peter Dobrovka against Virtual X-citement and Ubi Soft. According to Dobrovka's description of the events, he worked on a non-commercial game named 3DDT. Then he was employed by Virtual X-citement and it went commercial. He got laid off in late 2001 because there were disagreements about money and the release date. He claims he never conveyed the publication rights to Virtual X-Citement and they violated his copyright by releasing Trains and Trucks Tycoon. Virtual X-citement and Ubi Soft claim that Trains and Trucks Tycoon was newly developed from scratch and there are no parts developed by Dobrovka left.

In 2002 Dobrovka failed to obtain an injunction to stop the release of Trains & Trucks Tycoon because the court can't ban something that doesn't exist yet. After the release Dobrovka filed another lawsuit which was rejected in 2006. He appealed and in December 2008 Ubi Soft and Virtual X-citement were prohibited to release, distribute or duplicate Trains & Trucks Tycoon.