Backlash Aftermath: King Suddenly Turns Amicable In Trademark Disputes
from the thanks-internet dept
When King, of Candy Crush fame, decided to lose its legal mind over supposed trademark violations by roughly everyone, the backlash on the internet was swift and decisive. Entire platforms developed out of the ether with the seemingly sole purpose of trolling the hell out of King. The most notable dispute, it seemed, was over a game called The Banner Saga, which King insisted represented a grave threat to their business model of allowing people to match up three or more digital representations of candied items. There too, the backlash was relatively severe.
Severe enough, it appears, to get King to suddenly transmogrify itself into an amicable tech beast.
According to both Stoic and Ransom, King has quietly and amicably settled the trademark disputes with both companies.This result provides evidence once again that these David versus Goliath IP disputes can often be resolved with a little sunshine and public shaming. King acted like a bully and once their actions were spotlighted the public sprung into action to make their voices heard.
"Stoic is pleased to have come to an agreement with King regarding Stoic's The Banner Saga trademark, which enables both parties to protect their respective trademarks now and in the future," reads a brief statement on the Stoic website.
Perhaps the more important lesson is one served to King and other companies that might be tempted to behave similarly. It's one thing to protect your brand, but it's quite another to open up a legal salvo, with all of its necessary expenses, only to end up in exactly the same place you began. No names have been changed in response to the disputes. The only real result in all of this is now everyone thinks a little less of King and a bunch of lawyers made a little bit of money. Sort of makes the whole process seem silly, no?
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Filed Under: banner saga, candy crush, games, king, saga, trademark
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The only surprising thing about the story is that at no point did the big guy ever seem to realize just how screwed he was!
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Uriah was a soldier in David's army, and David gave him leave so he would go home and have sex with her. That way if David had gotten her pregnant, Uriah wouldn't get suspicious.
Uriah refused to abandon his fellow soldiers just to get a little nookie, so David sent him to the front lines where he was promptly killed.
David wasn't exactly a stand-up guy. It makes me wonder who was actually the villain in the David vs Goliath tale.
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But in the end... God took care of it. Always does, even if we never notice it.
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The Bible, 1 Samuel 13:20
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a small error
There, fixed that for you.
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Shouldn't it be illegal?
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While this is not an insignificant matter, it's simple a symptom (and a minor one at that) of a much bigger problem. But then, in a society increasingly indoctrinated to treat symptoms and largely ignore the actual problems, this isn't all that surprising.
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I think the take away is...
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