Hasbro abandons "Cybertron" Trademark? |
05-16-2006, 04:18 PM
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#2 | | Hecho en Argentina Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 4,658 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina. | So...what's gonna happen now?
Perdi mi firma :(.
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05-16-2006, 04:27 PM
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#3 | | TF: Animated FTW!!! Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 718 | i would doubt this report's validity, just on grounds of common sense. | |
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05-16-2006, 04:32 PM
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#4 | | Keiner versteht mich. Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 6,414 Location: Germany News Credits: 37 | If you don't trust TF@TM, you could always look it up at the US Patent and Trademark office's public website.
It's true. The "Transformers Cybertron" trademark is still "live", though...
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05-16-2006, 05:24 PM
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#5 | | Liker of Robots Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 360 Location: Minneapolis, MN Collection Count: A shitload. | So, what the hell are they gonna call Cybertron in the movie? Gobotron?
Sounds like somebody in the Hasbro legal department dropped the ball. | |
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05-16-2006, 05:54 PM
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#6 | | Keiner versteht mich. Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 6,414 Location: Germany News Credits: 37 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Rodimus Pie So, what the hell are they gonna call Cybertron in the movie? Gobotron? | They can easily call it "Cybertron" in the movie. Remember how Dreamwave was able to use names such as "Bluestreak", "Hot Rod" and "Shockwave", none of which Hasbro owned as trademarks at that point.
The only thing Hasbro couldn't do was being able to use the word in ADVERTISING and being able to defend it in court (just to avoid confusion: they could use it in advertising, but they couldn't use it in advertising AND being able to defend it in court, if you understand what I mean).
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05-16-2006, 06:03 PM
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#7 | | The British Butcher Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 21,609 Location: UK! Collection Count: An awful lot. And a few SWTFs. | Hmmm, I feel a "5002 News" coming on  Quote: |
Originally Posted by Lance Halberd Sol Fury can be likened to a German clock. A very exact, complex, and tightly-wound precision instrument that occasionally goes cuckoo. | | |
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05-16-2006, 06:06 PM
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#8 | | TF: Animated FTW!!! Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 718 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Nevermore If you don't trust TF@TM, you could always look it up at the US Patent and Trademark office's public website | I trust common sense more than I trust a stanger that puts out a website. If this came from someone like the Hartmans or Ben Yee, I'd trust it, because I trust them and I know they actually HAVE sources at Hasbro.
I'll wait for Aaron to clarify this "news" before I believe it. Hasbro gets crapped on a lot for making what fans think are stupid moves, but to blindly trust some random website with "news" of this calibre? Not without more than this.
Weren't you the one also using the patent site to justify the argument that Hasbro hadn't finally succeeded in getting the rights to the Bumblebee name back just a few weeks back? And yet: 
Bumblebee TM Large as life. Even has a Classics toys coming with his proper name.
Not gettin' in your face about it. I'm just thinkin' that the patent site isn't as up to date as these so-called breaking news stories would appear. | |
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05-16-2006, 06:45 PM
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#9 | | Bringer of Doom! Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 4,869 Location: Collingswood, New Jersey. Collection Count: Over 1000 | this would be as stupid as them abandoning Optimus Prime. It's the name of their home plant. They are NUTS to abandon it. 
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05-16-2006, 06:46 PM
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#10 | | TF Master Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 155 Location: South Dakota Collection Count: 1000+ | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Nevermore If you don't trust TF@TM, you could always look it up at the US Patent and Trademark office's public website.
It's true. The "Transformers Cybertron" trademark is still "live", though... | ya know i just mentioned lightening up, but also called you a TF guru,and here you flex those guru muscles! you said the same thing i was going to say, and yep...it still listed as live, not sure what they would ditch a trademark only a year or two into their 10 trademark.  home of 1000+ TF's and over 1000 pics!
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