ZeniMax, Mojang Settle "Scrolls" Dispute

[exfileme]

ZeniMax gets the name while Mojang can license it for its card game and add-ons, nothing more.

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[mouse24]

"We are pleased to have settled this matter with Mojang amicably," said Robert Altman, Chairman and CEO of ZeniMax. "The Elder Scrolls is an important brand to us, and with this settlement we were able to protect our valuable property rights while allowing Mojang to release their digital card game under the name they preferred."

Uhm, Why even bother with the lawsuit in the first place if you are worried about company relations with them? And for that matter who in there right mind would confuse a Card game called Scrolls with an immense RPG world game called Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

not a single person I know refers to Skyrim simply as Scrolls.

"Scrolls" would not only conflict with their own RPG trademark, but cause consumer confusion and thus possibly damaging the Elder Scrolls franchise itself.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

So any word contained in a product title is potentially reserved for that company, if it has the money to sue anyone using it?

 

[GenericUser]

Oh no, because everyone will totally confuse the game with Oblivion, Skyrim and the like. This case might have had merit if the average persons IQ was 40.

 

[virtualban]

waiting for the time when new products will have to be named "vvadduuggglll12345" and similar.

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]mouse24[/nom]Uhm, Why even bother with the lawsuit in the first place if you are worried about company relations with them? And for that matter who in there right mind would confuse a Card game called Scrolls with an immense RPG world game called Elder Scrolls: Skyrimnot a single person I know refers to Skyrim simply as Scrolls.[/citation]

you know i think the same way... but people continue to supprise me with their stupidity every day...

so now we cant use the word

part
cart
revolution
dark
heros
game
dead

to name a few in the title of games, because they are used in other games...

god i hate this world.

 

[Maxor127]

Call of Juarez vs. Call of Duty. Ubisoft and Activision better get their lawyers ready. Any noun or adjective that happens to compose part of a title is up for grabs now. Sword, Legend, Ninja, Dragon, and let's throw in roman numerals while we're at it. I always confuse Red Dead with Red Steel. Or Mario Golf with Tiger Woods Golf.

 

[stridervm]

I better trademark the name "Dark Revolution Call of Fantasy Scroll of Mass Star Super Online World Chrono : Dragon Edition"

Sure, it sounds like a Chinese bootleg but I'll be frickin RICH! >.>

 

[senkasaw]

[citation][nom]stridervm[/nom]I better trademark the name "Dark Revolution Call of Fantasy Scroll of Mass Star Super Online World Chrono : Dragon Edition"Sure, it sounds like a Chinese bootleg but I'll be frickin RICH! >.>[/citation]

Dude...you made my day.

 

[iceonfire014]

Personally I don't think Elder Scrolls and Scrolls is confusing...

By the way, the "it would be confusing" link (http://tdr.uspto.gov/jsp/DocumentViewPage.jsp?85323305/%20OOA20110913203209/Offc%20Action%20Outgoing/18/13-Sep-2011/sn/false#p=1) leads to a page that says 500 Server Error.

 

[bustapr]

The actual document I signed was like a billion pages, so at least we know a bunch of lawyers got rich. Good, wouldn't want them to starve

never knew exactly why things as simple as this would require the signing of a giant contract. I mean, its just giving over a trademark and a keeping a name, and agree to not make a fantasy rpg like elder scrolls. a valid agreement can be made in 1 or 2 pages...

 

[senkasaw]

[citation][nom]bustapr[/nom]never knew exactly why things as simple as this would require the signing of a giant contract. I mean, its just giving over a trademark and a keeping a name, and agree to not make a fantasy rpg like elder scrolls. a valid agreement can be made in 1 or 2 pages...[/citation]
But that would make too much sense...

 

[alextheblue]

I'm thinking of making a sci-fi RPG called Mass Affect. What do you guys think?

 

[parasite057]

Mojang should now call their game "The Elder: Scrolls"

 

[shrapnel_indie]

This is sooooooooo stupid.

TES, The Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls being confused with Scrolls?!?!?!

Only to a Moron. (Unfortunately the USPTO office must be a magnet for them. Look at how many stupid patents get passed through as accepted when in reality there is nothing new about them, only an abstract legalese-like description designed to confuse a dumb-dumb.)

Legalese, at least the kind in contracts is a language meant to bind one tighter than Houdini in a straight jacket, mummification wrap, and ropes combined with electric shocks and a convenient noose which will be instantaneously applied, with the chair kicked out from underneath should you go against any part of the micromanaged details.

Here's another reason it's stupid.

We now have a big teen-party movie coming soon if not already in theaters called Project X. How's THIS for confusion? Back in the '80s there was another movie with the same title. This one starred Mathew Broderick and some chimps, where the chimps were used in radiation exposure experiments to see how long they could fly simulators after being exposed. I'm sure there are other examples out there too of same-name different content movies and songs (and maybe even books.) We surely can get confused there, but apparently it's Okay there, but not elsewhere.

 

[AstralWraith]

For some reason I have a feeling that far fewer people will be buying ZeniMax titles, Pirate Bay usage for their titles will skyrocket(especially after their lie to the Fallout original creator that they would create an MMO from it after a few titles as he wished/dreamed of, and then used their lawyers to screw him and run off with HIS franchise AND this happening), and Mojang will be enjoying quite a few sales of their titles from now on.....