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Ali M Oldboy
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URGENT! URGENT! URGENT! URGENT! URGENT! URGENT! URGENT!

BTW - To the person on the DB forums,

You know you made mecenries,
Pandemic software stole your name just that so you know

URGENT! URGENT! URGENT! URGENT! URGENT! URGENT! URGENT!


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Jimmy
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Mecenries?

That's kind of a weird name. I doubt anyone stole it.


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Benjamin
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Nukesoft you retard. BAN HIM

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Shadow Robert
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DavidT did not trademark the name, LucasArt (who Pandemic made Mercinaries for) did.. Name Trademarking generally costs $6,000 so, if you care to stump up that cash for DavidT's lastest version then by all means

Also, he discovered this for himself about a year ago.


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Jimmy
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Well it's a good thing David is the only one who actually knows how to SPELL the name of this game.

But yeah Nuketard, he did/does not own the name, so it's all good.


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David T
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Posted: 9th Dec 2004 02:49 Edited at: 9th Dec 2004 02:50
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I know about this.

I made a game called Mercenaries waaaaay before this Lucas Arts game was even a twinkle in George Lucas's eye, suffice to say I'm not pleased

Please email me next time. This isn't a message board (oh, wait.... ah well you get the jist of it)

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They trademarked my name?!? This is war

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Except that Mercenaries was never a trademark, owing to the lack of, well, trade under that name.


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Bagsy me first then...

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I think I will make a game called mecenries...

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Ali M Oldboy
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Posted: 9th Dec 2004 16:22 Edited at: 9th Dec 2004 16:27
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Can I join your war David? My soldiers are ready anytime!













And you can sue LucasArts for that! Although it
could be very hard...


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Shutup Nukesoft, reading your messages hurts my brain


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You can't sue LucasArts for that. They technically own the name, regardless of whether David thought of it first or not.

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Ali M Oldboy
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Your right, I gues it's hopeless!

P.S. Zero Blizt - Whatever, lol


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Quote: "Can I join your war David? My soldiers are ready anytime! "


It was a figure of speach.

Quote: "You can't sue LucasArts for that. They technically own the name, regardless of whether David thought of it first or not."


Agreed. I'm fine with it as long as they don't start trying to stop me from using it. Then I may get annoyed.

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Generic words can't be protected like that thankfuly

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Under certain circumstances they can be protected. Try releasing an OS named "Windows" . And even in this case...

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Under certain circumstances they can be protected. Try releasing an
Quote: "OS named "Windows" . And even in this case..."


Hmm. Front page, Word, Access, Publisher, [corel] Draw are all I suppose trademarks but also words of the english language. Hmm - interesting

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Yeah it depends. They are not generally protected. Apple (Apple Corps, Ltd. founded by the Beatles) for example has been a record company long before Apple computers came to existance. They were OK with a computer company called Apple (they even had an agreement) until Apple Computers started their iTunes.

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Posted: 10th Dec 2004 02:37 Edited at: 10th Dec 2004 02:42
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I think you're taking this a little too seriously Nukesoft. I'm sure there have been many freeware/shareware indi games that shared the same name before LucusArts or Davids game came along. It's downright stupid and ignorant to expect them to think up a name no indi developer has ever used beforehand.

On the other hand, like David suggested, if they were to try and force David to change his games name, so long as David can prove he used the name first, they can't force him to do anything (as far as I know).

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Ali M Oldboy
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No i was taking the war thing a joke,
I'm not taking it seriously

It is up to DavidT, he says he could sue 'em
but lucas arts have millions! I THINK you could
sue 'em for some money


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@ Everyone:
I'd wager that NUKESOFT is somewhere around the 10 year old age range.

@ NUKESOFT:
Please stop with all the stupid posts, as someone else already said, reading them hurts...


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Quote: "I'd wager that NUKESOFT is somewhere around the 10 year old age range.
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I'm fairly certain he's 11 .

Quote: "Hmm. Front page, Word, Access, Publisher, [corel] Draw are all I suppose trademarks but also words of the english language. Hmm - interesting"


I don't think so. Look around product sites from companies like Adobe or Corel and note how products with generic names have the all rights reserved symbol after their name, while products with original names (tend to) have the trademark symbol. There are some exceptions but generally speaking, you can't just protect any given word. And even if you do, chances are it won't hold up in court.

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Well seeing as how Lindows was forced to change its name after being help up in court, I'm certain that nobody could use Word, Publisher, etc. without being driven out of business.


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Quote: "I'm fairly certain he's 11 ."


I ignore you

Of course, I would not listen to bad jestures and names

LMAO


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Quote: "LMAO"

Gee, I wonder why you are laughing your a** off.

Quote: "I ignore you"

...for I cannot take critizm that I am wrong.

Quote: "I would not listen to bad jestures and names"

Well, then you'll anoy a lot of people by being the same.

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Quote: "anyone ever heard of "Mike Rowe Soft" ? Microsoft company tried to shut it down, but all they managed to do was make that MikeRoweSoft.com redirect to another URL

Big Companies may try to take names from the little guy, but they usually dont get very far...unless they pay 'em off.\

p.s.I believe Mike Rowe ended up getting a free xbox and a trip to hawaii or something for changing http://www.mikerowesoft.com to a redirection url rather than the host name.
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Yes, when I was reading this as it unfolded (a few months ago IIRC), I was pretty angry that Microsoft would actually do a thing like that. I mean, come on, it's someone's name!


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To be honest I have a hard time believing he started the site with no intention of annoying Microsoft, and following the basic decency that Microsoft themselves lack, he could have changed to it to MRowesoft or MikeRsoft or MichaelRoweSoft or whatever and not pushed the territory line. But hey, Microsoft doesn't play fair, so it's no big deal if someone plays dirty in return .

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Ali M Oldboy
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Well, i don't annoy anymore mr. mouse!

good day!

(I WONT BE REPLYING ANYMORE)

Are you mad? I am!

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He's 11? Didn't know that...

Here's my forums www.andrewtamalunas.proboards28.com . Please join!

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Quote: "MikeRsoft"

Thats a pretty cool idea for a name..pronounced mike-ruh-soft

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