Markus 'Notch' Persson tweets that the legal battle between Bethesda Softworks and Mojang is headed to court, saying simply: "The Scrolls case is going to court! Weee! :D".
In March, Mojang announced plans for a collectible card-based game called
Scrolls, which prompted
Bethesda to sue, alleging this infringes on
The Elder Scrolls brand. Notch initially expressed optimism this could all be sorted out without litigation, at one point
suggesting a
QUAKE III Arena deathmatch to settle matters, but apparently hotter heads have prevailed.
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The 'principle' is that we'll all be better off if a company can't litigate over nebulous words/terms.
I hope there is a lot more that comes from this. This feels a lot more like attempted theft. Mojang decided they want to call their game Scrolls. Bethesda/whatever sees this and decides they want that name for themselves. I think Mojang is smart to defend their property like this and I hope that Bethesda ends up paying a lot of money for making fraudulent claims. Either you've filed for ownership of "Scrolls" or you haven't. Seems simple to me. The court should simply ignore the fact that they have a game series called "The Elder Scrolls: XXXXXXXX".
Yes I see your trademark (or whatever) for the title, "The Elder Scrolls", where is your trademark for "Scrolls". You don't have one? We're done here, thanks for wasting our time.
If nothing else this case should lay the framework for defending yourself against threats like this for little guys in the future. Find and replace the bits about notch and his company and replace it with yours, show up in court, move on with life. |
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