King's Open Letter Defends Its Trademarks, Apologizes For Clone

[Lunar Templar]

kinda doesn't change the fact 'Saga' is so widely used that it shouldn't even be up for consideration, and there for, shouldn't be allowed to do this at all

 

[Strazdas]

"We're not trying to stop Stoic from using the word Saga, but we had to oppose their application to preserve our own ability to protect our own games.

You dont have to do that. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not-require-companies-tirelessly-censor-internet
Your lawyers are incompetent or you are lieing.

" Otherwise, it would be much easier for future copycats to argue that the use of the word 'Saga' when related to games was fair play."

Thats because word SAGA IS fair game. its a word which has a specific definition and you should never be able to trademark it.

'we had to oppose their application [for ... Saga] to preserve our own ability to protect our own games'. As long as they are operating within the insanely broken US trademark system, they pretty much have to be jerks or they'll have no protection against the next Zynga coming along and creating clones of their games.

They dont have to. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not-require-companies-tirelessly-censor-internet
They choose to anyway.
you should not be able to "protect" words like saga.

 

[DragonStorm247]

Big talk coming from a company that basically built their success on a Bejewled clone.

 

[teebeeohh]

It still rings true that mobile devs are not in it to make games but to make money. Which might explain why so many of them turn out to be massive cunts as soon as they have success.

 

[MrBaskerville]

It' a bit unfair towards the guys with the Saga rpg series (Saga Frontier, Unlimited Saga and so on) . I think Saga defined their series ages before it defined kings.

 

[McKitten]

I understand the reasoning behind the "we don't want to sue you but we have to because if we don't then we can't sue anybody" line, but it still sucks.

It's bullshit, trademark law doesn't work that way. King acted like a bully and is now trying to weasel out of it by blaming everything but themselves.

 

[The Bandit]

What about The Banner Saga's right to protect its own trademark? What if someone comes along and makes The Boner Saga and they can't do anything about it?