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Re:Game Developers Are Trolling the Makers of Candy Crush Wi... by fragsworth on Friday January 31, 2014 @12:43AM (#7155494)
It's different from Zynga's "-ville", because Zynga creates new words that have never (or very rarely) been used. It's different from Apple's i-Things as well for the same reason. Both of those companies made prudent decisions about their brand trademarks by not treading on anyone else.

The law should not allow companies to own common English words in perpetuity. If you want to make your brand a common English word, you should accept the fact that other people get to use it.

I doubt King will win any lawsuits against others who use the words.

Re:Game Developers Are Trolling the Makers of Candy Crush Wi... by chilldream on Friday January 31, 2014 @08:03AM (#7156440)
> Both of those companies made prudent decisions about their brand trademarks by not treading on anyone else.

Actually Apple ran into some trouble with, say, there already being software called IOS before any of the iThings existed. They've been to court over it a few times.

Re:Game Developers Are Trolling the Makers of Candy Crush Wi... by morganherlocker on Friday January 31, 2014 @09:47AM (#7156859)
They also license the name "iPhone" from Cisco. They reference it in the first few lines of the legal section in the settings panel.
Re:Game Developers Are Trolling the Makers of Candy Crush Wi... by MartinCron on Friday January 31, 2014 @01:29PM (#7158230)
There's a different takeaway here. There are lots of other companies that are using the i- prefix for their products and yet Apple continues to thrive.