From kde-games-devel Sun Jan 24 17:31:03 2010 From: Jeremy Bicha Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:31:03 +0000 To: kde-games-devel Subject: Re: [Kde-games-devel] RFC: Rename KBattleShip and KTron Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-games-devel&m=126435434027735 I think it's rather questionable whether Hasbro (formerly Milton Bradley) has sole rights to the name Battleship to describe this type of game.  Here's a bunch of links for you (or your lawyers) to come to your own conclusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28game%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28puzzle%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28video_game%29 looks like this had nothing to do with Hasbro/MB http://tess2.uspto.gov/ US Trademark search, notice the 30-year old Computer Battleship wasn't owned by Hasbro/MB and has lapsed. http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-games-devel&m=112288888226392 And Fedora's had this issue with Battleship for several years. Finally, I don't think Hasbro has tried to shut anyone down for a Battleship computer game and there have been a lot of people distributing these games over the years. Jeremy Bicha On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Mauricio Piacentini wrote: > > Ryan, is it possible for you to send us a link to the information > passed to you guys by your legal team? It looks like there is a good > chance we will be able to do this renaming, and having this > information would help us. > > Regards, > Mauricio Piacentini _______________________________________________ kde-games-devel mailing list kde-games-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-games-devel