Beitragvon Duchamp » 18. April 2012, 12:36
W. Eric Martin hat auf BGG die Situation vor ein paar Tagen zusammengefasst:
"For those not scouting the Merchant of Venus and Magic Realm game forums, BGG users Will Crane, Scott Lewis, and others have been scouting U.S. trademark records (as covered in this thread) to uncover details of who might own what.
On October 24, 2011, for example, Stronghold Games filed a trademark registration for "Merchant of Venus", but on February 9, 2012 a "suspension letter" was written and emailed to Stronghold Games, noting that Wizards of the Coast (aka Hasbro) owns the trademark "Merchant of Venus". Since Fantasy Flight Games announced in October 2011 that it had "signed an exclusive licensing contract with Wizards of the Coast, LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc.", if WotC is indeed the owner of the trademark "Merchant of Venus" (and it filed for the trademark three days before Stronghold did), then Stronghold could not publish a game under that name. ... Thus in all likelihood, although neither publisher has announced anything along these lines, FFG will indeed be the publisher of the new edition of Richard Hamblen's Merchant of Venus."
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/9646/new-game-round-up-new-marks-for-hamblens-venus-and
Soweit das, was man im Moment erfahren kann ...