"Council of Glades" trademark filled

[Sarethion]

Eye of Azshara is considered fake because it no longer exists on any trademark database as of right now.

I don't think it's a good enough proof... They might have deleted it at some point, but decided to do that expansion anyway and plan to re-register the trademark, say, a few days before the announcement

[Deleted]

Me'dan confirmed.

[Rafoel]

I call this one legit (although I'm not sure it is related to WoW).

Name "Council of Glades" is something completely new. It has no connection to overly discussed topics like "zomg South Seas" or "zomg Azshara" or even "zomg Legion".
I don't know why somebody would troll with such weird name, when obviously (if being fake) it would have much less trolling impact than most other titles.

Warlords of Draenor was just as random. Nobody expected Draenor to be in the xpacs name.

[Paula Deen]

I don't know if it's fake, or not but if it was generated in the office, like the OP says, and not with the web site, the metadata could be MS Word.

Here in the office I can manually generate a PDF from our system, and it opens MS Word in the background and generates the PDF.

I am still saying it is fake for now, but it also kind of does make sense. This is something that gives away your actual name, so if he was just sloopy and left that in, shameful, but if it is real, this could be bad for him

[Anakonda]

https://twitter.com/brumfondl/status/625634460155772929

Tl;dr - it's a photoshop of Warlords of Draenor trademark. Not real.

[Yuna]

As for Apache PDF generator:

This tool allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents, mostly via remote server access and/or queries.

If the creator of the document just merged existing pdfs from the hdd, he or she would not have used apache pdf generator.

[Gadzooks]

I don't know if it's fake, or not but if it was generated in the office, like the OP says, and not with the web site, the metadata could be MS Word.

Here in the office I can manually generate a PDF from our system, and it opens MS Word in the background and generates the PDF.

Is your copy of Word at work registered in your name?

I'll concede that it's a remote possibility that your scenario could be true, but it's highly doubtful - and the fact that the client reference number is identical to Warlords is the clincher, for me. If you look at the Starcraft II pages, each expansion has it's own unique Client Reference, and since Blizzard did all 3 at once, they're sequential.

[Sarethion]

That's because I'm right and you're wrong.

If it makes you sleep better at night than fine, you win, though I still don't agree with you in the slightest and I think you're just nitpicking and I don't think you're right.

The only part where you, most likely, was right is the CoG being a fake - which is probably the case. Here I can openly admit that I was wrong, you were right. However, I don't agree that it was the "sound weird" part that made it a fake, but the meta-data stuff.

[CosmicGuitars]

I don't think it's a good enough proof... They might have deleted it at some point, but decided to do that expansion anyway and plan to re-register the trademark, say, a few days before the announcement

There's no reason to believe the Eye of Azshara is real until it's on the trademark database. Even just a single country listing it is enough for me to admit there's a possibility of it's legitimacy. The fact it appeared in Benelux and removed seems to indicate to me that it was fraudulent and failed to process due to it's illegitimacy. If they decide to re-register it, I'll reconsider my position, but until I see proof that it exists, I'm considering it fake.

[Deleted]

That's because I'm right and you're wrong.

There is no "right or wrong", only the truth. Until proven real, all leaks are false. The one with the most believable data tends to be the real one.

[Gadzooks]

https://twitter.com/brumfondl/status/625634460155772929

Tl;dr - it's a photoshop of Warlords of Draenor trademark. Not real.

It's not a Photoshop, it's an edited PDF, completely different thing.

But, someone on Twitter is right - the PDF says it was filed on the 25th. That's a saturday, and that office is not open on Saturdays.

http://www.iponz.govt.nz/cms/contact...fice-is-closed

Fake.

[Deleted]

and I don't think you're right.

It's already been proven fake twice now.

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There is no "right or wrong", only the truth. Until proven real, all leaks are false. The one with the most believable data tends to be the real one.

And the ones with the truth are the ones who are right.

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It's not a Photoshop, it's an edited PDF, completely different thing.

But, someone on Twitter is right - the PDF says it was filed on the 25th. That's a saturday, and that office is not open on Saturdays.

http://www.iponz.govt.nz/cms/contact...fice-is-closed

Fake.

lol

what an epic fail

[Deleted]

And the ones with the truth are the ones who are right.

Which happens to be none so far.

[Anakonda]

It's not a Photoshop, it's an edited PDF, completely different thing.

But, someone on Twitter is right - the PDF says it was filed on the 25th. That's a saturday, and that office is not open on Saturdays.

http://www.iponz.govt.nz/cms/contact...fice-is-closed

Fake.

Photoshop, pdfshop, whatever. Same thing different name.
And like twitter said - it uses same client reference as WoD trademark, which can't happen. Thus fake.

[Deleted]

Which happens to be none so far.

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it was disproven 3 times now

[Deleted]

Let's see... since the lore of WoW has been going downhill and this expansion would open up the presence of the most lore-lol character, Me'dan (thus meaning the lore would be really bad), I call this legit.

[Sarethion]

There's no reason to believe the Eye of Azshara is real

Exactly! No proof something is real =/= proof that something is a fake
What I mean is, just because you can't confirm something, it doesn't make it impossible.

P.S. I also think it's a fake, but who knows... anything might happen. Blizzard hasn't stated that EoA is not the next expansion, so everything's possible here.

[Gadzooks]

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it was disproven 3 times now

Always check your metadata when trolling, kids. You'd be shocked what some apps and programs put into your files.

[bluspacecow]

Even if ignoring the 1996 date, BLZ register stuff all the time. Most of it never used.

The PDF is a document detailing ALL Blizzard's trademarks with the IPONZ office.

Scroll down to page 72 bro

[losmarios]

Is your copy of Word at work registered in your name?

I'll concede that it's a remote possibility that your scenario could be true, but it's highly doubtful - and the fact that the client reference number is identical to Warlords is the clincher, for me. If you look at the Starcraft II pages, each expansion has it's own unique Client Reference, and since Blizzard did all 3 at once, they're sequential.

It's not registered to me, but still all documents (.docx, .pdf) show my name as author. You can enter it at installation time, or later in the options screen.
I may add I doubt it's real, but the metadata should not be the main issue.