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The reason Trenched is delayed in Europe is... 30 Jun, 2011 / 6 comments

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Trench. You dick.

That's the Spanish board game called 'Trench', which is a trademark. According to Eurogamer that trademark covers both board games and video games in Europe. Consequently unless Microsoft either finds a way around the trademark, retitles the game, or points out "look they're completely separate words, you wouldn't ban Nancy Drew: The Mystery of the Clue Bender Society because it has the word 'Clue' in it would you?" the game will remain unreleased.

I just want to play a tower assault game with mechanized trenches against a race of vicious TV monsters in a World War One scenario, is that so much to ask??

Source: Eurogamer

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    manny_c44 on 01 Jul, 2011, 13:26…
    That board game looks awesome~
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    Logic on 30 Jun, 2011, 23:20…
    Good point. Doesn't stop people selling apples though!
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    Ceres on 30 Jun, 2011, 22:19…

    Logic

    Not to mention the ridiculousness of trademarking a single generic word which is in common usage. Aren't there distinctiveness criteria for trademarks?



    Apple

    But yeah, this trenched thing is pretty ridiculous.
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    Logic on 30 Jun, 2011, 20:46…
    Not to mention the ridiculousness of trademarking a single generic word which is in common usage. Aren't there distinctiveness criteria for trademarks?
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    Alex IDV on 30 Jun, 2011, 18:13…
    My god, that's ridiculous.
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    SurplusGamer on 30 Jun, 2011, 17:34…
    Ridiculous. The purpose of the law is to protect a trademark from being copied or to legislate in cases where confusion between two brands/products could occur. I don't see how either of those could occur here.

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