[Kde-games-devel] RFC: Rename KBattleShip and KTron

[Luciano Montanaro]

On sabato 23 gennaio 2010, Ryan Rix wrote:
> On Sat 23 January 2010 4:10:25 am Mauricio Piacentini wrote:
> > Should we preemptively rename Plasma as well?
> 
> The problem is that Hasbro holds copyright to the name Battleship with
>  regards to "computer game programs and accessories for use therewith"[1].
>  Which I would think is a -lot- more close of a risk than simply sharing a
>  name with another software in a different field.

Can they really do that? I've played "Battaglia navale" since forever...
Can a simple computer transposition of a paper and pencil game be granted a 
trademark, for a name so common?  

> 
> It's more than the fact that they share a name with trademarked items, it's
> that they share a name with trademarked items, where the trademarks are
>  held in the same field (in this case computer games) that is the issue.
> 
> [1]: That is [2] in my first email, but apparently the USPTO's site is
>  garbage and has very strange sessions rules, so you have to search to get
>  to it :( Trademark's serial is 76370446 and IC is "009. US 021 023 026 036
>  038"
> 


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