Mojang Offered Up Scrolls Trademark, Bethsoft Said "No"

[Spaec]

...But why? They already decided to drop the name from what I understand? Why go into overkill mode for something like this?

It's possibly a case (no pun intended) of legal processes-as-business and/or modern gaming's publisher-ocracy. Mojang offered to relinquish the name and Bethesda certainly don't need any of Mojang's money with Skyrim coming out. It's just a needless power display, but Mojang still hold insane amounts of goodwill and Bethesda will just hurt their own brand in doing this.

 

[spartan231490]

Of course they aren't afraid of that, bathesda probably has enough of a trademark on elder scrolls to protect them from that. Zenimax just doesn't want Majong Scrolls capitalizing on all their marketing for TES V skyrim, which is blatantly what Majong scrolls is trying to do with the title.

 

[AMMO Kid]

Still rooting for Bethesda in this case

 

[MacGuges]

False Gravity [http://www.falsegravity.com/]. Seriously people, READ THIS.

Could you give us a gist? Especially since the site appears to be down atm?

EDIT: Ok, I see it now. This is Russ Pitts' site, the author of the original article on Kotaku. I'm sorry, I don't see anything here that wasn't known already. (I suppose it's a good thing for Russ that if Kotaku were to go kaput he'd have his own words on his own website.)

 

[Pandabearparade]

You know... this is great advertising for Mojang. Had this not happened, I'd never have heard of 'Scrolls', and wouldn't have bought it. Going to get it now .

 

[steveredd]

My, this is becoming a regular "he says, she says" situation, huh?

Though I never quite got why Bethesda went after Notch in the first place. I mean really, is all of the bad press and really worth having free-reign over the word "Scrolls" in their game titles? Do they really think Notch is that much of a threat? Last I checked, people call it the "Elder Scrolls" series, not the "Scrolls" series. And it's not like he's directly copy/pasting their gameplay and scenarios.

THIS! ^

 

[synthesis]

It's not bethesda, but it the lawyers working at zenimax who has nothing better to do than to cause bad publicity for bethesda.

The lawyers dont give a damn what they sue as long as they get money.

 

[airrazor7]

The way I see it, the fact that Bethesda said no to Mojang giving them what they want means that the trial was never about name but about something else and they're simply using the trial to accomplish some other goal. Now that Mojang has made its legal, yet small, mistake, Bethesda could be using it as an opportunity to do something else.

The point I'm trying to make is, if Bethesda wins in court, what do they stand to gain? They may demand the IP that is Minecraft or even try to take the company itself. After all, the popular way to do business nowadays is for a company to consume several smaller companies and a few actual competent businesses so the company can grow a few steps closer to becoming a monopoly. That's what happened with the cell phone industry.

 

[Wintermoot]

wait what? you throw a shit storm over the word "scrolls" and when somebody offers you it you say no? what the hell Bethesda?