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09-27-2011, 01:20 PM
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Bethesda is serious about its lawsuit to get the name of Mojang's upcoming Scrolls (http://www.1up.com/games/pc/scrolls/) changed. The lawsuit (http://www.1up.com/news/bethesda-wants-new-name-minecraft-dev-scrolls) it filed against the Minecraft (http://www.1up.com/games/pc/minecraft) developer this summer is now headed to court.
Little is known about Scrolls, which was first revealed (http://www.1up.com/news/today-gaming-ipad-2-mario-netflix-3ds) back in March as a collectible card/board game hybrid -- a far cry from the action/adventure RPG that the Elder Scrolls games could be described as. But it's the game's name that Bethesda has taken issue with, feeling it is confusingly similar with its Elder Scrolls trademark. Before filing the lawsuit, it had gotten in touch with Mojang to inquire about its filing (http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4006:tm3bud.2.7) for a trademark on "Scrolls."
"I agree that the word 'Scrolls' is part of that trademark, but as a gamer, I have never ever considered that series of (very good) role playing games to be about scrolls in any way, nor was that ever the focal point of neither their marketing nor the public image," Mojang's Markus Persson stated last month. "The implication that you could own the right to all individual words within a trademark is also a bit scary. We looked things up and realized they didn't have much of a case, but we still took it seriously. Nothing about Scrolls is meant to in any way derive from or allude to their games."
More... (http://www.1up.com/news/bethesda-scrolls-lawsuit-minecraft-developer-going-court)
Bethesda is serious about its lawsuit to get the name of Mojang's upcoming Scrolls (http://www.1up.com/games/pc/scrolls/) changed. The lawsuit (http://www.1up.com/news/bethesda-wants-new-name-minecraft-dev-scrolls) it filed against the Minecraft (http://www.1up.com/games/pc/minecraft) developer this summer is now headed to court.
Little is known about Scrolls, which was first revealed (http://www.1up.com/news/today-gaming-ipad-2-mario-netflix-3ds) back in March as a collectible card/board game hybrid -- a far cry from the action/adventure RPG that the Elder Scrolls games could be described as. But it's the game's name that Bethesda has taken issue with, feeling it is confusingly similar with its Elder Scrolls trademark. Before filing the lawsuit, it had gotten in touch with Mojang to inquire about its filing (http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4006:tm3bud.2.7) for a trademark on "Scrolls."
"I agree that the word 'Scrolls' is part of that trademark, but as a gamer, I have never ever considered that series of (very good) role playing games to be about scrolls in any way, nor was that ever the focal point of neither their marketing nor the public image," Mojang's Markus Persson stated last month. "The implication that you could own the right to all individual words within a trademark is also a bit scary. We looked things up and realized they didn't have much of a case, but we still took it seriously. Nothing about Scrolls is meant to in any way derive from or allude to their games."
More... (http://www.1up.com/news/bethesda-scrolls-lawsuit-minecraft-developer-going-court)