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If LW does not make the distinctions as noted they could actually LOSE their right to the trademark. If they look at it as you state and say "oh they arent actually refering to US, even if its the same wording" then the courts (in all their screwed up glory) can actually remove the trademark from them and throw it into open use. Now, while I agree that its an utterly IGNORANT attitude, the scorn should be aimed at the legal system, not at the companies that have to play by the rules or lose their source of income In short, LW is being more than reasonable in their requests, and the fact is if they DONT make them it bites them in the butt legally Its not a matter of LW being jerks, its the jerks in the court system making them behave this way |
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Couldn’t an argument be made that they sat around for years and years while the gaming community used the term “army builder” as a catch-all, generic term and thus missed their chance to cry foul?
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As I understand it, they've been pretty proactive in notifying people using it on products. This was just a case which was much more high-profile. They're not going after people who referring to an "army builder" as a general term so much as the guys coming out with "Bob's Army Builder" or "Army Builder 40K" as seen in Rob's first post in the topic.
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Holy resurrection of a dead and done to death thread. I can't believe this is still an issue to anybody.
Honestly everyone build a bridge and get the heck over it already. Gil |
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^_^ Enough said. |
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