Can We Get A Few Morons In A Hurry Over To Skywalker Ranch?
from the pretty-quickly-please dept
Once again, it appears we've found a situation where our favorite trademark test should be used. As has been stated way too many times, the purpose of a trademark is simply to avoid customer confusion over two similarly named products in the same space. As such, the perfect legal test for some of the more bizarre trademark infringement claims is whether or not a "moron in a hurry" would confuse the two. Well, we'd like to send a few morons in a hurry up to the Skywalker Ranch (or, at least, the Presidio) to see what they think of Lucasfilm's latest complaint that Digg's trademark on "Digg" is too similar to Lucasfilm's trademark on "The Dig," which apparently is some video game from 1994 that few of us have ever heard about, let alone played. The idea that anyone would confuse the two things is somewhat ridiculous. And, before someone points out that to protect a trademark you have to defend it, that doesn't mean defending it in cases where it obviously has no bearing, and it's hard to see why the trademark on a 13-year-old game no one plays any more is worth the lawyer's time defending. Perhaps it's just an attempt to get the game some more attention in a bizarre reverse Streisand Effect.
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Silly Publicity Stunts
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I played it
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Re: I played it
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Now, I agree it makes fuck all sense to someone who isn't American or knows american lingo.
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heart
You're right, I certainly don't heart it, I haven't even heard about it!
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Sad Really..
What I find more interesting is that after neglecting both the genera and their existing titles - in the genera - for so long they now come up with this. And although I have not done any digging recently to see if anything new is in the works I recall that The Dig had a solid ending. I doubt that they are preparing to add to the story now.
Ahh, good memories. I think I will go load up ScummVM and play it again.
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WTF are they talking about?
WTF?!?
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LOL
my friends and I STILL use that line from "The Dig"
Great game
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genre
funetick speling FTW.
genera reminds me of gonorrhea.
/offtopic
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Hey Lucas
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LOL
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All that aside, WTF Lucas! There is no way that anyone could mistake your 12 year old adventure game for a news aggregation site. I guarantee that this gets thrown out of court.
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Hello?
The Dig was awesome, as was just about any LucasArts Adventure game.
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Who?
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My exgf was named
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Dig was one of the best adventure games
The Striesand Effect is working, I actually remembered the game after reading this, dug it up, and booted up the old 486 to play it.
But i could never EVER confuse the two
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Companies are stupid and greedy, that is all there is to it.
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No time to say hello, goodbye
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In other news...
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Re: In other news...
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I'll go...
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Digg-it!
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dig this
On a related topic Orson Scott Card is currently writing and producing a new video game, so look forward to that- it's supposed to be pretty huge.
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