"Council of Glades" trademark filled

[KrazyK923]

I like how we can just declare things because we don't seem to like them.

[Deleted]

I like how we can just declare things because we don't seem to like them.

Who said anything about like? It's about whether it makes sense or not.

I can't even say whether I like it or not just going by the name.

The expansion could be called Revenge of the Prostitutes and I think I would like that, but that doesn't mean I would think it makes sense as a title coming from Blizzard for a WoW expansion.

Has nothing to do with liking it.

[KrazyK923]

Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand -Case Details Report Date and Time:26 Jul 2015 01:26:37 a.m.

IPNumber:1015540
ClientReference:785394LXT/FJU/jal
FilingDate:10 Mar 2015
Status:Accepted
Mark Nature:Trade Mark
Mark Type: Word
Under Proceeding:No
Series:No
Mark Name:HEROES OF THE DORM

Anyone else catch this on page 70? If the document is legit the name of the expansion may not be the release title

Heroes of the Dorm was the big event they held, which was marketed all over the place, even on specific TV channels.

[Foxhoundn]

Another one? Why fill in another trademark for HS when this was just announced:
http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/...gust-7-22-2015

Wow, how did I miss that is beyond me. I had no idea. Thanks.

[Brianmage]

A few of them probably do, they just aren't saying anything.

this +1. Very cetain MMO-champ staff know things about the next xpac that they can't tell us.

[KrazyK923]

Who said anything about like? It's about whether it makes sense or not.

Which it does, and people only seem to be saying it doesn't because they don't seem to like it. An insane amount of pedantry going on.

[Ryanite]

Do Blizzard usually trademark outside of the US first?

[Sarethion]

Maybe some places just gets called "Glades [of sth]"?

I'm not an expert, but Mists of Pandaria not Mists of The Pandaria + Warlords of Draenor not Warlords of The Draenor make me thing that there might be a rule in english where you don't use "the" before something that has a unique name. Correct me if I'm wrong though, english is not my native language.

[Deleted]

Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand -Case Details Report Date and Time:26 Jul 2015 01:26:37 a.m.

IPNumber:1015540
ClientReference:785394LXT/FJU/jal
FilingDate:10 Mar 2015
Status:Accepted
Mark Nature:Trade Mark
Mark Type: Word
Under Proceeding:No
Series:No
Mark Name:HEROES OF THE DORM

Anyone else catch this on page 70? If the document is legit the name of the expansion may not be the release title

Blizz's HS Tournament.

[Deleted]

In that case, can anyone confirm if NZ's trademark office does offer that 'secrecy' service?



You're late to the party, and Google would have told you so.

Ah thanks sorry was at work and just noticed this whilst browsing trying to keep my personal web browsing to a minimum :P

Also I dont watch TV or live in the US if that is where said commercials were airing

[Deleted]

I imagine they would have bought all the domains associated with this in preparation. Go to any hosting website (e.g. godaddy) and you can still purchase all variants of "councilofglades".

It's a crap name anyway.

[Sarethion]

Do Blizzard usually trademark outside of the US first?

Probably not, but if we assume that companies have an option to hide the trademark from public searches in New Zealand, why wouldn't they have it in US?

[Deleted]

Which it does, and people only seem to be saying it doesn't because they don't seem to like it. An insane amount of pedantry going on.

Typical krazyk mental gymnastics.

Are you the one who faked this document?

[FenixAU]

It's worth noting that even if this were a completely public trademark filing, the NZ database would not be updated yet. After reviewing the last few hundred trademarks to be filed on a weekend, trademarks with a filing date of a Saturday don't appear in the database until Tuesday, sometimes Wednesday. And that's for public trademark filings. If they indeed offer a private filing service, I can't discern any way we could refute it atm.

[Deleted]

Honestly, Council of the Glades is more poetic than Council of Glades, simply because well... the latter sounds like a newspaper headline.

No...it doesn't? And besides in reality it would be The Council of Glades. Just like it was The Cataclysm.

[Jessicka]

I like how we can just declare things because we don't seem to like them.

And I like how we can defend things just because we like the idea. Neither side has a real solid basis right now.

[Deleted]

Which it does, and people only seem to be saying it doesn't because they don't seem to like it. An insane amount of pedantry going on.

Again, I dunno about American English, but by the rules of British semantics, it's a particularily weird title that implies one of the following:

-the title lacks a definite article before 'Glades'
-there is some lore we're missing that would explain why the definite article is missing
-WoW is now a newspaper.

[Funkyjunky]

Council of Glades is grammatically incorrect

if anything it'd have to be Council of THE Glades if it's supposed to refer to the Council of Tirisfal (Glades)

/shrug

Lay on hands.

[KrazyK923]

Typical krazyk mental gymnastics.

Are you the one who faked this document?

Sounds like the mental gymnastics are the people like yourself getting butthurt over a name. Like I said, I don't know if it's fake or not, but this chest-thumping about grammar as if it is proving something is incredibly goofy.

I don't think I actually ever said I liked the name. I'm not sure if I do. I just don't have a knee-jerk hatred of it.

[Jessicka]

Lay on hands.

Has been around in DnD since forever. Probably predates that.