[1] It is an American company based in Nevada and owned by the Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers.

As the initial versions of the game spread through the Eastern Bloc, interest in licensing it for western commercial release drew much attention.

One of the main licensees of the game was Bullet-Proof Software, owned by Henk Rogers, with whom Pajitnov struck up a friendship.

The Tetris Company was established in 1996 by Pajitnov and Rogers to manage the worldwide licensing of the property.

[5][9] TTC drew attention in the late 1990s when it attempted to remove freeware and shareware clones of Tetris from the market by sending out cease-and-desist letters claiming both trademark and copyright infringement.

[10] Creators of Tetris clones claimed that the company had no valid legal basis to restrict tetromino games that did not infringe on the Tetris name trademark, since copyright "look-and-feel" suits have not stood up in court in the past (Lotus v. Borland), and because the letters made no patent claims.