EA And Ubisoft Fight Over "Ghost" Trademark

[Magmarock]

Hopefully the legal costs will put a huge dent in both companies wallets

 

[moosemaimer]

Odd they didn't go after Activision, really.

 

[Flathole]

Xel'Otath be damned. I thought EA was trying "no seriously" to repair their company's image.

You lasted 3 days EA, 3 days.

They only wanted to gain trust so they could abuse it, like the "honeymoon period" of an abusive spouse. Still surprised at how short that was.

 

[Jacked Assassin]

Can we please stop trying to copyright everyday words? What's next? Nintendo copyright's the word "party" because of its mario party franchise?

There ain't no Party like a Mario Party because a Mario Party won't stop, taking legal actions against every other Party.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

They haven't trademarked the word. Only it being used for a specific game or service.

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4810:y0puy5.2.4
Serial Number: 86568854

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4810:y0puy5.2.5
Serial Number: 86568852

Ubisoft is actually the one in the wrong here, for their ridiculous claim that the trademark causes confusion with their Ghost Recon property.

This is not comparable to the Fine Bros fiasco and them trying to appropriate the word react in the context of ANY video.

Thanks for being the one smart, educated person in this thread.