※ [本文轉錄自 Gossiping 看板 #1FDVd24K ] 作者: GundamXX (同天內只射一次) 看板: Gossiping 標題: [新聞] Blizzard控告Valve使用'Dota作為遊戲商標 時間: Sat Feb 11 13:16:45 2012 其實之前就有這爭議在協調了 差別只是Bz這次是正式提出告訴而已 不趕快出D3 0.0 還在吵這種玩家弄的W3 mode名稱 XD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az_zrDANRZc&hd=1 Blizzard has filed a Notice of Opposition with the US Patent and Trademark Office in a bid to block Valve's registration of the Dota trademark. Valve sought to make the Dota trademark its own last year in anticipation of releasing its online game Dota 2. Yet the Dota name had been used for years in various fan-made modifications of Blizzard games. Executives at the World of Warcraft company have previously made public their complaints about Valve’s trademark attempt, but in November it pressed ahead with a lawsuit. "The Dota mark has become firmly associated in the mind of consumers with Blizzard, including to signify a highly popular scenario or variant of one of Blizzard's best-selling computer games, Warcraft III," the company said. Valve has opposed the complaint and wishes to have its trademark enacted. 其他延伸閱讀: Blizzard Sues Valve Over 'DOTA' Name The courts will soon decide who owns the rights to the name DOTA. By Erik Norris February 10, 2012 13 Blizzard is in the process of suing Valve over the trademarking of the name “ DOTA." As many of you probably know, Valve is currently developing a fully-fledged sequel to the original WarCraft III mod -- a mod they didn't originally create, mind you -- and is attempting to officially claim the name for themselves through the US Patent and Trademark offices, much to the dissatisfaction of Blizzard, who sees the term DOTA as theirs by extension. The matter will now be settled in court, where Blizzard and Valve will each make the case for why they deserve to be the trademark holder of the name DOTA. As Blizzard sees it, while they didn't create the free Defense of the Ancients mod for WarCraft III, it has become synonymous to a product they did create. DOTA would not exist if it wasn't for the foundation Blizzard built with WarCraft III. If the roles were reversed, it would be like Blizzard seeing the success of the original Counter-Strike, a fan-made mod for Valve's Half-Life, and developing a Counter-Strike 2 without the consent of Valve, making money off a property that wasn't theirs to begin with. In legal mumbo-jumbo, here's how Blizzard is expressing their frustration in the matter: "In contrast to Blizzard, Applicant Valve Corporation ("Valve") has never used the mark DOTA in connection with any product or service that currently is available to the public. By attempting to register the mark DOTA, Valve seeks to appropriate the more than seven years of goodwill that Blizzard has developed in the mark DOTA and in its Warcraft III computer game and take for itself a name that has come to signify the product of years of time and energy expended by Blizzard and by fans of Warcraft III. Valve has no right to the registration it seeks. If such registration is issued, it not only will damage Blizzard, but also the legions of Blizzard fans that have worked for years with Blizzard and its products, including by causing consumers to falsely believe that Valve's products are affiliated, sponsored or endorsed by Blizzard and are related or connected to Warcraft III." Stepping outside my personal opinions on both development companies, I think Blizzard has a strong case, unless I'm completely missing something in the fine print of this lawsuit. The original DOTA was a free mod for WarCraft III and now Valve is developing a sequel to pass the IP off as their own. That seems fishy. Either way, the courts will soon decide who gets the rights to the name. The last shot fired was in November of last year when Blizzard followed up their original filing, stating they "respectfully request that this Opposition be granted." Warcraft boss brands trademark attempt ‘a strange move’ America’s highly factionalised games development industry has drawn further lines of division with two of its biggest studios disputing the proposed trademark of a common game term. Blizzard Entertainment, Activision’s global-leading money-generator of World Of Warcraft fame, has publicly criticised Valve for its bid to trademark the DOTA name in its upcoming title, DOTA 2. What is now a disagreement could quickly plunge into a legal dispute, with both Valve and Blizzard planning to release games with the DOTA name while Valve looks to trademark the name for itself. Rob Pardo, the executive VP game design at Blizzard Entertainment, told Eurogamer that Valve's attempt to trademark DOTA "doesn't seem the right thing to do". DOTA is common description of a popular online gametype, though also the abbreviation of an existing game, Defence of the Ancients. Article continues below Advertisement Defence of the Ancients broke onto the scene as a mod to Blizzard’s Warcraft III. Valve hired a number of that mod team – in keeping with its community focused roots – and is in the process of developing DOTA 2 with its Source engine. Earlier in the year, Valve filed a trademark registration for DOTA. Pardo criticised the move: "To us, that means that you're really taking [DOTA] away from the Blizzard and Warcraft III community and that just doesn't seem the right thing to do.” Blizzard, he believes, retains the right to use the name in its free StarCraft II mod, Blizzard DOTA, which was announced over the weekend at BlizzCon. "Valve is usually so pro mod community. It's such a community company that it just seems like a really strange move to us... I really don't understand why [they would do it], to be honest," Pardo added. -- 洪爺伊莉走透透，激突後宮逍遙遊; 若是無法艾噹洛，台泥Plus便當狗。 水寒孤棹觸卡提，直似乘槎去問津; 曾經微風無限好，客星名字也愁人。 ψI'm α & Ω GundamXX --

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