Notch is being sued. GAMERS UNITE

Whats next? "the" being copyrighted?

he did say scrolls after all

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Why are you posting then =.= We do not care about non-constructive comment.

btw you're missing a lot.

But he only has tens of millions of dollars! We need to give him our support or he'll never make it through! :O

Someone who actually understands....congrats.

and have already paid the fee to the Swedish court

I dunno how they do it in Sweden, but usually in the US we pay the court when we file a complaint..which starts a lawsuit..

Maybe in Sweden you pay the court every time you send a letter.

came here to say this, I'm glad someone's already said it.

Here we I am going to post this here because people look for your replies.

Here it is in dumbed down speak.

• Company 1 tries to file a trademark that sounds and looks like company 2
• Company 2 has trademark lawyers that do the job they are payed to do, notices similar trademark being registered by Company 1, the lawyers of Company 2 (being payed what they are payed to do) send a letter requiring Company 1 to cease all claim action
• Company 1 argues that their trademark though similar is nothing like Company 2's
• Lawyers from Company 1 & 2 meet up and agree that no harm is done and the suit is removed

Company 2 has to do this to enforce their claim otherwise in future lawsuits company 2 has no standing ground ie Company 3 can come along and call their game Elder Scrolls: The Awakening then during a trademark lawsuit Company 3 can say that Company 2 allowed Company 1 to get away with a similar sounding name and therefore Company 2 has no interest or claim with the trademark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Maintaining_rights

Trademarks rights must be maintained through actual lawful use of the trademark. These rights will cease if a mark is not actively used for a period of time, normally 5 years in most jurisdictions. In the case of a trademark registration, failure to actively use the mark in the lawful course of trade, or to enforce the registration in the event of infringement, may also expose the registration itself to become liable for an application for the removal from the register after a certain period of time on the grounds of "non-use".

You see it is all legal, it is law and it is required to enforce the trademark otherwise the trademark can be seen as null and void. Bullying? maybe, but that is the law.

TBH in the eyes of the court no matter how silly it may seem Mogang (Notch or no Notch) who then tried to request a trademark claim for Scroll are at fault for not checking whether that trademark infringed the rights of other trademark holders.

Edge Games....They really aren't known for any big games, just their lawsuit. Which by the way rumor has it they are creating a game called Mirrors.

I just copyrighted your name and I'm going to sue you for everything you've got.