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The developers' statement is wrong. King is not preventing Stoic from using the name "The Banner Saga." That would be the case if King filed a trademark infringement suit. What they have filed is an opposition to Stoic's application. Thus, what they're doing is trying to keep Stoic from claiming exclusive use of the name "The Banner Saga" in the context of a casual online game.



Essentially King are telling Stoic they can use the name, but cannot own it, because it includes the single word "Saga." It's a little unsavory of King to claim ownership of that single word in such a broad context, and the particulars do not sensibly favour their cause.


According to grandparent, King is not claiming ownership. They are claiming "those guys can't trademark Saga."

Their reasoning is "because we use it in our games and have been," but that's not claiming ownership. If I try to trademark "chicken" and McDonald's objects saying "we have been selling Chicken McNuggets for decades," that is not McDonald's saying "we own the trademark on Chicken."


So King is using the argument that everybody else is using against them? (saying that they cannot copyright "Candy" and "Saga" due to them already being in wildspread use)




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