Candy Crush creator abandons 'candy' trademark efforts

Re:Candy Crush creator abandons 'candy' trademark efforts by Nursie on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @01:19PM (#7306554)

Candy is indeed uncommon here, but not unheard of. You'll find it on confectionary packaging to describe the contents. There's also a chain of stores in London (elsewhere now?) called Cyber Candy that sell exotic (OK so mostly american) candy.

So it is in some use, but not that common.

Personally I object to anyone that tries to trademark a single word of our shared language. They shouldn't be able to fence bits off like that, they should have to make up their own word if they want it trademarked.

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Re:Candy Crush creator abandons 'candy' trademark efforts by JNRowe on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:54PM (#7307226)

Good example for me with Cyber Candy, I've walked by one countless times but didn't think of it.

I'll make a U-turn here and say that I agree with you about using made up words, but for a different reason. I'd probably rather see random non-word brands like PreBarpTzoh, than keep having to remember region specific names for trademark reasons. Lynx/Axe is the example that immediately springs to mind, a future Candy Mush Tiger and <insert non-EU name> could be another.

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