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Subject: Re: Zombie(S), Run!
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Yes, trademarks do have to be registered with the Patent and Trademark
Office, just adding the letters "TM" doesn't make it official. A quick
search of the PTO database shows that neither "Zombie, Run!" nor
"Zombies, Run" is currently trademarked, but a whole lot of other
zombie things are.


On Sep 14, 3:33=A0pm, Clint A Brubakken <cabru...@acm.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure about trademark law, but you might have a case if you want t=
o
> persue it. I don't remember if you need to register trademarks or not for
> protection. You should look into it, in case politeness doesn't work
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Peter Dolan <peterjdo...@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> > People are definitely confusing the two. =A0I've seen many comments on =
blogs
> > touting the Kickstarter project that believe it's an upgrade to Zombie,
> > Run!. =A0At least one member of the open source team that helped me dev=
elop it
> > in the early days thought that it was an upgrade, too.
>
> > - Peter
>
> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Clint A Brubakken <cabru...@acm.org>w=
rote:
>
> >> The only thing I could think of is the name is similar, thus violating=
 the
> >> Zombie, Run trademark, and people might confuse the two,
>
> >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Kyle H. <ababypeng...@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>
> >>> I don't know why some are freaking out. It looks like a solid idea an=
d
> >>> is fairly different than Zombie, Run! I don't see how any legal actio=
n
> >>> could be taken, considering that Zombie, Run! is a free app, and
> >>> development is pretty much dead at this point. Honestly, I can't wait
> >>> to see if this game lives up to that sweet trailer.
>
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