King Troll
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M1vtC_B7fc
Well this is just, uh... a word no one can use anymore. The makers of Candy Crush Saga, who have famously pursued trademarks for the words Candy and Saga in the past, are stepping it up once again by registering a trademark for the word SUPER in video games. This is going to end well.
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For the uninitiated, Tim Langdell founded Edge Games in 1990, which incorporated the properties of his former company, Softek Software, which he founded ten years prior. Amazingly, Edge Games didn’t release a game from 1994 to 2009. Thanks to Langdell, the company managed to stay afloat for those 15 years because of aggressively copyright trolling just about anything that contained the word “edge.” No edge-based game title was safe, and Langdell even went after mega-giant Electronic Arts when the company developed Mirror’s Edge.
So yeah, this actually worked once already, and for a damned long time too.
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@RaceProUK what about Super Mario?
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@fbmac That's the hope: the sheer quantity of prior art should have this trademark application laughed out so quickly it causes a time paradox. Anything else would be a colossal failure of the legal system.
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@fbmac said in King Troll:
@RaceProUK what about Super Mario?
Hmmm... I should trademark
64
in game titles...
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@Onyx I call dibs on
the
andand
!
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Considering the current
fadtrend in gaming I'll just go ahead and copyrightVR
,Virtual
andReality
in game titles. Maybe also should go forAR
andAugmented
to be fully safe.
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Did anyone claim
3D
yet?
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@PleegWat Nope: it's yours ;)
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@RaceProUK In that case, our new blockbuster
The Super Virtual 3D Experience
will be released soon™.
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@RaceProUK said in King Troll:
Well this is just, uh... a word no one can use anymore. The makers of Candy Crush Saga, who have famously pursued trademarks for the words Candy and Saga in the past, are stepping it up once again by registering a trademark for the word SUPER in video games.
This is going to end well.And then the murders began.
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@RaceProUK said in King Troll:
Anything else would be a colossal failure of the legal system.
Yeah, and that has never happened before .
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@anonymous234 said in King Troll:
@RaceProUK said in King Troll:
Anything else would be a colossal failure of the legal system.
Yeah, and that has never happened before .
SCO vs world is still ongoing, after all.
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@tufty said in King Troll:
SCO vs world is still ongoing, after all.
This one was decided in 2010. Is there another?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Novell,_Inc.
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@RaceProUK said in King Troll:
That's the hope: the sheer quantity of prior art should have this trademark application laughed out so quickly it causes a time paradox. Anything else would be a colossal failure of the legal system.
Keep in mind that trademark, patent, and copyright are all different things with different rules. The term "prior art" is only used with patents, where anything published or made publicly available before the patent application can be used to reject the application or invalidate the patent (if the patent examiner didn't know about it).
Trademarks are a bit different, though. If Nintendo had never made another Super Mario Bros. game, then Nintendo couldn't prevent someone else from getting a trademark for "Super" because they aren't using that trademark any more. Of course, that doesn't change the fact that getting a trademark on a common word is really hard to do.
And for other people who are misusing words, you can never copyright something like "Super" in a video game name. Copyright applies to an entire (or significant part of a) creative work, such as the video game itself, or the music or character artwork.
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@boomzilla Yep. SCO vs IBM, and a couple of others which are on permastay.
SCO vs IBM was the big one, where they were claiming 5 billion in damages.
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@tufty It looks like judgement was passed on that one, though there is the appeal still to go it seems:
On March 1, 2016, following the judge in the case ruling against the last remaining claims, SCO's suit against IBM was dismissed with prejudice; SCO then filed an appeal later that month.
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@tufty Well, who can keep up when groklaw stopped posting in 2013?
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@boomzilla Most of the case following now goes on on the Investorvillage.com message boards, where all the Yahoo!SCOX followers migrated to.
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What you should really try to trademark is anything where the two words of the title start with a
D
and anS
, which would have people at your throat from the past and present as well as the future.
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@boomzilla On checking, there's now a date set for the appeal. 22 March 2017.
http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/calendar/events/March_2017_Final.pdf
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Has anyone ever thought about handling cases like these by dragging the CEOs out into the street and shooting them?
I think it would solve a lot of problems.
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@Lorne-Kates said in King Troll:
Has anyone ever thought about handling cases like these by dragging the CEOs out into the street and shooting them?
I think it would solve a lot of problems.
i can get behind that plan.
except when you say shot..... do you mean "shot" or "torn limb from limb by a pack of wild foxes"?
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No mention of me :D
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I'm disappointed this thread isn't about the return of the king
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@Luhmann Julien.
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@Luhmann Nah Henry the VIII
The first Gangster Rapper King:
Surprised he doesn't have a whole rap album in middle English.
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@lucas1 FUCK Someone needs to do a gangstar rap album in middle English.
"Track 8 - Henry VIII"
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@lucas1 "Track 6 - Henry's wives"?
(this is a track that includes some very brutal cuts)
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@Onyx said in King Troll:
@fbmac said in King Troll:
@RaceProUK what about Super Mario?
Hmmm... I should trademark
64
in game titles...Anyone got '2' yet? Sequels make a lot of money...
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@Shoreline said in King Troll:
Anyone got '2' yet? Sequels make a lot of money...
Damn, ’d by a few minutes — I was going to suggest trademarking all Roman and Arabic numerals for that exact reason.
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@accalia said in King Troll:
do you mean "shot" or "torn limb from limb by a pack of wild foxes"?
I think this calls for a scientific experiment! Or at the very least extensive A/B testing.
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@remi said in King Troll:
@lucas1 "Track 6 - Henry's wives"?
(this is a track that includes some very brutal cuts)
What you did there. It was visible to me. Don't get ahead of yourself though,
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@remi Brutal you should write metal lyrics.
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@Atazhaia said in King Troll:
Considering the current
fadtrend in gaming I'll just go ahead and copyrightVR
,Virtual
andReality
in game titles. Maybe also should go forAR
andAugmented
to be fully safe.Huh you missed
Real
! Your loss
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@remi said in King Troll:
@lucas1 "Track 6 - Henry's wives"?
(this is a track that includes some very brutal cuts)
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@remi said in King Troll:
@lucas1 "Track 6 - Henry's wives"?
(this is a track that includes some very brutal cuts)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Wives_of_Henry_VIII_(album)
"The Six Wives of Henry VIII is the first studio album by the English keyboardist Rick Wakeman, released in January 1973 on A&M Records. It is an instrumental progressive rock album with its concept based on his interpretations of the musical characteristics of the six wives of Henry VIII. Wakeman decided on the album's concept during a tour of the United States as a member of the rock band Yes. As he read a book about the subject on his travels, melodies he had written the previous year came to him and were noted down. "
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@El_Heffe That album was the first vinyl I ever bought.
Some magnificent kit work from Alan White on this track: