Minecraft accolades. Social media, parodies, adaptations, merchandise, and the MineCon convention played large roles in popularizing the game. It has also been used in educational environments ("Minecraft Education Edition"), especially in the realm of computing systems, as virtual computers and hardware devices have been built in it. By late 2018, over 154 million copies had been sold across all platforms, making it the second best-selling video game of all time, behind "Tetris". In September 2014, Microsoft announced a deal to buy Mojang and the "Minecraft" intellectual property for , with the acquisition completed two months later. Spin-off games, such as "",
Uniloc Uniloc filed a lawsuit against Mojang, citing the "Minecraft Pocket Edition", as an infringement upon patents claiming exclusive rights to a method of software license checking. Markus Persson of Mojang has stated he does not believe "Minecraft" infringes the Uniloc US patent no. 6,857,067 and that Mojang AB will defend the lawsuit. The same lawsuit was also filed against other Android game developers including Electronic Arts (maker of "Bejeweled 2"), Laminar Research (maker of X-Plane), Distinctive Developments, Gameloft, Halfbrick Studios, Madfinger Games and Square Enix. Uniloc Uniloc Corporation is a computer security and copy protection software company founded in Australia