No problem - I appreciate your on Kotaku and your knowledge of the indie industry. Since I’m an attorney I have a tendancy to jump in whenever I see things misquoted or misunderstood about the law (I don’t blame people, it is confusingly written more than half the time).

Honestly I undestand your take and believe me I…

I’m sorry but you are flat out wrong on this

Tradmark dilution 15 USC § 1125(c) - is where the trademark is damaged through dilutio due to its use by other entities. The defense of laches is where you cannot bring an action against another party where you have unreasonably delayed in bringing a lawsuit thus hurting the…

Except that’s not a requirement under trademark law. Infringing is baed on a likelyhood of consumer confusion. So if I change the hypothetical and say that Konami releases a metroid game on the Xbox One (ENTIRELY OUT OF ITS OWN POCKET) and does not charge what’s the difference then? Or worse, they release several…

McDonalds use to have one in the “Mc” that they’ve tried to enforce but have lost on in the past.

The fastest case I can give you with Citation is Abraham v. Alpha Chi Omega

It’s three years in te US as well (15 USC § 1127) but it’s not just limited to new games. Bear in mind that Nintendo’s re-issuing Super Metroid as a downloadable title, using the logo in Miitomo or its Badge Arcade game IS in fact using it under a class D21 trademark

Nintendo can’t change the IP law, particularly regarding trademarks. If you don’t defend your trademark in the US then you risk losing it completely. So yes, while it’s sad to lose the Metroid 2 remake, Nintendo owns the trademark to Metroid and if they let this slide and another developer (let’s just say Konami fo…

Yeah I was thinking the same thing - there were times he was landing on platforms that are meant for player traversal by MANY classes that can reach them. In my opinion it shoudl only count surfaces that only Lucio could move across.

I had to learn to do this as a kid in swimming classes - yes JEans will hold air but good luck lifting them over your head to do that slam to get the air in them when they’re wet - they way a freaking ton.

Really fun and as close as it gets.

But who else am I to blame if Dunkin happened to run out of Choclate Honey Dipped that morning?

What if you drop the K and just call it the “Playstation 4,000?”

Prior PS4 models will subsequently be renamed “Playstation 4 Scum Class” to entice people to upgrade.

Opinions on shooting aside you could afford to mention that this was a suspect in an armed bank robbery at least.

Thank you for listing Gankutsuou, it is one of my favorite shows of all time and honestly a much better visual representation of Alexander Dumas’ novel than all the other’s I’ve seen. That’s evenn counting in all the sci-fi elements.

To elaborate if anyone is curious, one of my core problems with most depictions of the…

I replied to BusPass elsewhere here with the synopsis but go see Green Room, good thriller with none of the rape implications.

Also as an aside - there are precisely zero rape elements to this film (at least I don’t recall) - the women of the film are subject to no different threats or dangers than the men - it’s strictly “get out or you will be killed.”

Yeah I know a few people who didn’t even get to see it because it was never released near them. Which is a shame as this is the first horror film I’ve enjoyed in a long time. (To be fair it’s more of a thriller than horror).

I do believe the highlight of the film is Patrick Stewart but where most horror nowadays is…

Go watch Green Room - it’s from only a few months ago and has Patrick Stewart as the villain. Without giving too much away it’s about an indie band that is getting its startup and winds up doing a gig at a bar run by some unsavory people. The group witnesses a murder in the club and the owners of the place decide they…

I h ave a list of games I have hate-finished. I only finished it because 1) I don’t like having incomplete games lying around and 2) I was so frustrated at how bad I felt the game was that I just refused to let it beat me.

Right now that list includes:

Suikoden IV
Sakura Wars on PS2 (the last one)
The Incredible…

Oh yeah absolutely, I have no problems overall, I’m glad to see China just represented in playable characters for once. Before this I think the closest I was getting were fighting games (generally always diverse in terms of nationalities) and Division which I just made a guy to look like a Chinese director who I…