I could be wrong but I do not think the trademark in Swaziland has anything to do with Blizzard as there is an entry under the Prosecution History which states "new application entered in TRAM" on 10/07/13. It looks to me that Blizzard have filed for the trademark and then found out someone else has registered it in Swaziland, although I could be completely wrong.
edit Looking through Cata's filling there are a number of entries under the prosecution history so it is probably nothing.
Last edited by Pann; 2013-07-16 at 07:34 AM.
Sneaky mother fuckers! They must all play rogues! NEWS JUST IN - rogue overhaul next patch because of how sneaky blizzard are! =p
Maybe the expansion is so bad that they want it too be top secret. Or the other way araund. Some1 will probaly dig something very secret like soon now that we know this.
Don't sweat the details!!!
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Someone file a shit load of possible expac patent names so we can scare blizz into revealing it and patenting it LOL
Also i knew where swaziland was as soon as i saw the name its in africa
Blizzard wins due to its earlier filing date in Swaziland. Because both US and Swaziland are parties to the Paris Convention Treaty, Blizzard's filing in Swaziland triggers a 6-month window in which it can then file in the US and retain the Swaziland filing date as its priority date. So anyone filing after that date (Feb. 28) would be junior to Blizzard's Hearthstone mark.
The Hearthstone mark does not even need to register as an actual trademark in Swaziland for the US application to get the Swaziland date, filing an application in Swaziland is enough.
Considering the list of countries that are parties to the Paris Convention (http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/Show...en&treaty_id=2), it'd be a tall order to actually find any foreign filings by Blizzard if they use some of the smaller countries on the list.
And this, my son, was the day when mmochamp decided to invade Swazilandia.
Aww..I was looking forward to the expansion name leaking within the next month and seeing the hype about it rise etc. I can't see how it's a bad thing for Blizzard when the expansion name leaks, it gets people talking about it which surely that's what they want?
Gotcha, thanks for the info.
Now quick someone go through all these country trademark filing offices and find one from Blizzard!
http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/Show...en&treaty_id=2
Wait, that doesn't make sense. It still get ANY filing in the US priority. If anyone else in the US wanted they would still get a priority in the TM over the foreign application.
In practice protecting NOTHING. Seems to me that was just a coincidence or someone with privileged information and Blizzard delayed the TM to settle down with the other part trying to file the mark.
Speculation can give big press and hype for an expansion, so dismissing it as stupid every time could be seen as wrong.
Everyone has been calling for a Legion expansion and many players have said that they would come back if the Legion was involved in the next expac. If word got out early about this, then I'm sure a lot of former players would want to come back. Not only that, demons and a distant planet being the main attraction is much better than the main face of the game being "OMG PANDAS, WTF!". It would definitely yield a better chance of subs increasing again.
Last edited by TJ; 2013-07-16 at 11:53 AM.
searching for Blizzard Enterainment gives shitloads atleast. http://www.wipo.int/branddb/en/index.jsp#
I especially like the trademark for "N00BZ"
xD
edit: probably not any usefull information, but was fun looking.