Patent and TradeMark Office has record of GW2 and Eye of the North

You're telling me the Enquirer was right? Gaaahh!!!

Woot! Inde, you are tha man!








Uhh... I mean Wo-Man!

LOL, this was posted on the other HUGE thread about 5 hours ago, but NICE JOB in making a new thread. There is no doubt that those are the names.

ONE THING BOTHERS ME THOUGH. The date of registration is one day after Inquirer posted its article. =o

yeah, I feel like maybe they are doing that to mislead us.

Question - the phrase "Guild Wars" is always (c) Anet, right? No other company can use that name in conjunction with other words?

It takes along time to actually get the patent. They probably applied for it sometime ago and just now got it granted. Those things have to be researched by a group of lawyers to insure it does not infringe on someone elses patent.

I knew I should've started a new thread for this ... this has been getting some talk all day today already on the Inquirer thread: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...&postcount=876

Anyway ...

Note from the trademark records: Filing Date March 6, 2007 - the day after the Inquirer article was posted on all the fan forums.

i think with inventions and stuff it takes a long time to get a patent, but this process probably isnt very involved

hm, should I start saving fur now???? eye of the north sounds like a cold place---hope so, my monk yuki will be happy!

Exactly, note that these are applications for a Trademark, they are not registered. They have not been published for opposition nor have they been officially registered. That means that these are not under the same statue of protection granted to registered trademarks though they are in process. That is to the best of my understanding of trademarks.

In other words, don't bank on these being for real. Granted a number of the trademarks listed are not registered, they still have a period of opposition to go through before they can be officially registered names.

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield...h=Submit+Query

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haha yeah the more i think about it, the more i say this is a clever attempt to trick us.

do you have any idea how much it costs to get a patent? well...around 2k, but would NCSoft have enough guts to play around with us? Ok that came out wrong, let me give it another try...would they waste their time and effort just to fool a bunch of people they see as pieces of hard cold cash? came out wrong again...I give up. XD

FOR Future Reference:

A Trademark is NOT a Patent.

Trademarks can be filed more quickly than patents can.

if it's just a trademarked slogan or title i dont think itd take too long to figure out that it's not in use

It would be really goofy to go to this extreme to fool and distract everyone... for a matter of a couple of weeks. Please. Anet is not exactly known for their misinformation. This pretty much proves that Eye of the North and GW2 are 99.9% true. The only thing that would cause this to be not true, is a major decision to change the names/gameplan in the future.

Thanks for the details. Much appreciated !!!

I wonder OP was smoking something.. this is old news and needs to be closed.

LOL, the OP is the admin of the site

even so its so awesome it deserves a new thread.