Blizzard Leagally Oppose Valve Over 'DOTA' Trademark

[dc89]

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?p...&pty=OPP&eno=1

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So let me get this straight. Blizzard actually want to oppose a trademark on a name which Valve created in the first place. Isn't that like Valve saying to Blizzard, 'sorry, we want to use World of Warcraft, take that trade mark off now or we go to court'?

Geez, what happened to Blizzard, they used to be cool! Oh wait, Activision happened.

Blizzard are pretty desperate with a stunt like this, Riot are raking cash in and they don't use the tag DOTA. Can't Blizzard come up with their own name, all the people who are paid hundreds of thousands of $$$ between them and they can't come up with a name?!

Is that the crux of it, or am I being stupid?

[Ghost-Rhayne]

What's up with these assholes? First bethesda over "Scrolls" lol and now this shit. Fucking idiots, smh.

[Nuvian]

http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?p...&pty=OPP&eno=1



So let me get this straight. Blizzard actually want to oppose a trademark on a name which Valve created in the first place. Isn't that like Valve saying to Blizzard, 'sorry, we want to use World of Warcraft, take that trade mark off now or we go to court'?

A trademark Valve created? DOTA (Defence of The Ancients) is a 7 years old fan made mod for warcraft 3 which is Blizzard game.

What's up with these assholes? First bethesda over "Scrolls" lol and now this shit. Fucking idiots, smh.

That has nothing to do with this case, Scrolls is not an acronym but DOTA is.

[Vulgotha]

It's a fan mod that was never officially owned by Blizzard. They have zero claim on it. None.

Valve actually went ahead and patented\trademarked it.

[BoyBettaKnow]

A trademark Valve created? DOTA (Defence of The Ancients) is a 7 years old fan made mod for warcraft 3 which is Blizzard game.

Came in here to say exactly this. I can see why Blizzard are acting out like this.

[Ghost-Rhayne]

A trademark Valve created? DOTA (Defence of The Ancients) is a 7 years old fan made mod for warcraft 3 which is Blizzard game.


That has nothing to do with this case, Scrolls is not an acronym but DOTA is.

My point is both are stupid ass claims that make these companies look like petty idiots imho.

[Nuvian]

It's a fan mod that was never officially owned by Blizzard. They have zero claim on it. None.

Valve actually went ahead and patented\trademarked it.

I never said they did, my point was that the DOTA name was not created by Valve.

Blizzard are pretty desperate with a stunt like this, Riot are raking cash in and they don't use the tag DOTA. Can't Blizzard come up with their own name, all the people who are paid hundreds of thousands of $$$ between them and they can't come up with a name?!

The Defense of the Ancients trademark recently filed by Valve is being challenged. Riot Games, the creator of the free-to-play DotA clone League of Legends, has apparently counter-filed, claiming that the trademark should be held by DotA Allstars creators Steve "Guinsoo" Feak and Steve "Pendragon" Mescon, who later worked with Riot on LoL.

The pair filed for the trademark themselves "to protect the work that [original DotA creator] Eul, Guinsoo and dozens of other modders have done to create the game," Pendragon told Joystiq via email. He added that, "if we were to obtain the trademark, we would keep the game and the DotA name freely available to the mod community."

Valve still hasn't returned multiple requests for comment, but of course DotA's most recent author, Icefrog, now works for the company on a project that will "excite " DotA fans, and as long ago as 2008 was reportedly shopping around a full-scale version of the popular mod. Pendragon tells PC Gamer that he'd prefer no one owned the trademark to DotA, but it seems that if Valve is planning to take the name for its own title, Guinsoo and Pendragon will fight for it.

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I agree with blizzard and riot games on this, Valve wants to exclusively trademark a term that has been free for use by blizzard and the modding community, if anyone is the "big bad company" here, its valve for trying to take away this term and making it theirs exclusively.

And this doesnt come as a shock since there has been talks about this issue for a long time.

[keefy]

I don't think its as stupid as some make out. DOTA is a Warcraft mod made with Blizzards engine and tools also Blizzard support it at their own Blizzcon having tournaments and things and those that know and play it associate DOTA with Bwarcraft and therefore Blizzard.