Re:King Candy Crushes Developers, The Saga
by danielweber on Monday January 27, 2014 @01:13PM
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According to grandparent, King is not claiming ownership. They are claiming "those guys can't trademark Saga."
Their reasoning is "because we use it in our games and have been," but that's not claiming ownership. If I try to trademark "chicken" and McDonald's objects saying "we have been selling Chicken McNuggets for decades," that is not McDonald's saying "we own the trademark on Chicken."
Re:King Candy Crushes Developers, The Saga
by Drakim on Monday January 27, 2014 @01:34PM
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So King is using the argument that everybody else is using against them? (saying that they cannot copyright "Candy" and "Saga" due to them already being in wildspread use)
Their reasoning is "because we use it in our games and have been," but that's not claiming ownership. If I try to trademark "chicken" and McDonald's objects saying "we have been selling Chicken McNuggets for decades," that is not McDonald's saying "we own the trademark on Chicken."