Comment on Supermassive Games announces layoffs, up to 75 positions to be affected

graynk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• terabyterex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  until this comment, so did i.

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• bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same! Then I remembered Supergiant has under thirty employees and that number made no sense.

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• HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I'm surprised these two never got into a trademark dispute...

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am pretty sure you cannot trademark “super” + some other word. You have to be more specific. Well, at least in the USA.

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    • FatCrab@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It boils down to likelihood of confusion. I think there would be a legitimate concern here, tbh. But they could have come to an agreement when one registered their mark after the other one had already.

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      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I was talking about being able to get a trademark for anything that is “superX” where X could be literally any word in the dictionary. Its too vague and generic and such an application would almost certainly be rejected.

        Supercell, Supergiant, and Supermassive are all trademarkable, and while “super” could cause some confusion, the USPTO doesn’t care so much about that particular point because the wordmarks are all different and the logos are all different.

        There is technically nothing stopping a computer software company trademark for “Microstar.” Unless it already exists obviously, but for the sake of argument let’s imagine it doesn’t. Even though the name could cause some confusion with Microsoft, as long as the wordmark and logo design are different they USPTO won’t care.

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• Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  LittleBigPlanet and Until Dawn are their big ones

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah me too and then I realized I have no idea who supermassive are.

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• Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Omg yeah, came here to comment this. I was super sad for those 3 seconds

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• LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I keep getting them mixed up with Supercell, too

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