Tag Archives: Trademark

Apple is currently being sued by a company in ownership of the ‘iWatch' trademark, despite the fact that Apple did not use that name for its first wearable. Apple announced the Apple Watch last year, though up until then it was largely referred to as the iWatch in rumours. a …

Ever since the iPhone 4 was first introduced, Apple has had its antenna shown off on the outside of its mobile devices. On the iPhone 4, 5 and 5s it can be seen at the metal ring around the phone while on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus you can …

Valve has gone ahead and trademarked something called ‘Chaperone', no it isn't some weird new driving game where you drive your kids around, but rather a set of tools aimed to bring objects in the physical world around you in to virtual reality. This technology could end up debuting on …

Sony’s latest PlayStation 4 exclusive, Bloodborne launched earlier this week to high praise but the company wasn't nearly as prepared as it should have been as the trademark for the game actually expired the day before release. Sony didn't just lose the trademark to Bloodborne though, it also forgot to …

Zenimax, parent company of Bethesda, has gone ahead and sent a cease and desist letter to the developer of mobile game, Fortress Fallout, demanding that the game stop using the word ‘Fallout' in its name. Xreal, the studio behind the small mobile game will no longer be able to use …

Update: Following yesterday's story that Sony has abandoned the trademark for The Last Guardian, Sony has commented, saying that the game is in-fact still in development and the abandoned trademark listing was just an administrative error at PlayStation America. Original story: Sony unveiled The Last Guardian a number of years …

Sony unveiled The Last Guardian a number of years ago, initially as a PlayStation 3 exclusive. However, despite the long and troubled development cycle, the company has refused to announce its cancellation and has remained certain that it will come out eventually. Unfortunately, that may longer be true as Sony …

Guild Wars 2 might be getting its first full expansion this year as NCSoft has trademarked what looks to be the title of a new release- Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. We may get our first look at the expansion sooner than you think as well, ArenaNet has an …

There has been a lot of talk surrounding the potential reveal and release of the long awaited Boston based Fallout game recently and earlier today fans received a glimmer of hope in the form of a new trademark filing for the brand name ‘Fallout Shadow of Boston'. Unfortunately for fans, …

Ikea, the company that has simultaneously provided us with most of our in-house furnishings and frustrating afternoons with wooden plugs and glue, has gone after IkeaHackers.net with a cease and desist order, claiming that it impeaches its trademark name. It's given the owner until 23rd June to takedown all adverts …

Evidently the lawyers for Candy Crush Saga developer King, have been a bit bored lately, as they've been allowed to get a bit trigger happy with their trademark infringement claims. First they went after Stoic Games, simply because its latest game, Banner Saga, had the word “saga” in it and …

Watch Dogs was set to be one of the most anticipated games to come out last year, unfortunately just a month before its scheduled release, the game was delayed. Since then, there have been a lot of rumours flying around about the state of the game- as you can imagine, Ubisoft …

What little hope we had left of seeing the Star Wars 1313 project come back to life is now gone as Disney has officially abandoned the trademark,an update on the United States Patent and Trademark Office website has revealed: “No Statement of Use or Extension Request timely filed after Notice …

Last week the Internet was flooded with pictures and articles on the Half-Life 3 trademark filing, we even reported on it. However the trademark filing seems to have disappeared along with our hopes of seeing the long awaited sequel any time soon. The filing had not been examined by the …

Valve has been smashing out headlines this past couple of weeks, whether you're talking about the SteamBox, SteamOS, the new touchpad/joypad controller or the Half Life 3 trademark. You can't look left or right without bumping into a new Valve story and today we have another: Valve just trademarked Portal …

In a move that could rival Valve's recent spate of announcements for its ability to excite the gaming populace, the Steam developer has gone and done it: it's trademarked Half Life 3. Of course with a headline like that, we can expect most of the comments to this piece to …

Apple is well known for trying to trademark generic terms in an effort to push out competitors or at the least draw licensing money from companies and individuals wanting to use that phrasing. It did this before when it attempted to trademark the phrase app store and now it's doing …

While we might all be aware of Microsoft's efforts to take over the living room viewing experience and Apple's plans are all too obvious with the AppleTV, no one quite expected Sony to be doing something similar – or at least that's how it appears, since the Japanese firm just registered …