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Scrolls Will Be Scrolls

[Mar 11, 2012, 12:58 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Mojang Website announces the lawsuit over whether Mojang's could name a game Scrolls in light of Bethesda Softworks' trademark for The Elder Scrolls. It turns out they will use the name, but are not challenging the trademark, which sounds like it was an amicable solution:

We have settled the lawsuit over Scrolls and Mojang and Bethesda are friends again.

To answer the big question – yes Scrolls is still going to be called Scrolls.

To answer the second question – we aren’t going to keep the trade mark.

For us this was never about a trade mark but being able to use Scrolls as the name of our game which we can – Yey.

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Re: Scrolls Will Be Scrolls

Mar 11, 2012, 15:46

ForgedReality

Dev wrote on Mar 11, 2012, 15:09: Beelzebud wrote on Mar 11, 2012, 13:40: I don't care what anyone says, this was a scumbag move from Bethesda. And it was an even stupider move of Notch to even try and fight over this. The last thing he needs is an expensive legal battle (even if he's 100% in the right). Not having the trademark means that anyone else can come up with a game called scrolls too if they like, so it would have been better to choose a name he could trademark. And not only that, but trying to push yet another digital Collectible Card Game in an already saturated market, wasn't the best call either. He's spreading his company too thin with too many projects at once that aren't minecraft related (minecraft is a very successful IP for him, but if he doesn't exploit it, it doesn't do him much good in the future). IANAL Dude, you think he fucking cares? He's richer than God. Chump change to him.

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