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I Forsee A Lawsuit with Portals [Update]

Posted on Thursday, July 14 @ 12:38:57 Eastern by Nicholas Tan

...zoomed in is...

...which is a lot like...

...which will likely turn originstorage.com into...

[UPDATE] ...so they have wised up and changed it to...

Related Games: Portal, Portal 2

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Comments

tinymhg
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Jul 13th, 2011 at 8:21 am
LMFAO!!

"But I don't like Spam!"

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drathbone
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Jul 13th, 2011 at 9:43 pm
What would the lawsuit be? Copyright law doesn't protect names ("portal") and trademark infringement would only exist if this origin storage was selling a similar product that your average consumer would confuse as being the original product.

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Nick_Tan
Joined: Jul 2006

Posted: Jul 14th, 2011 at 3:27 am
Not sure. It depends on whether Valve filed their Portal logo as a trademark. From my understanding, they can sue simply based on the similarity of the logos alone. The fact that they're not selling a similar product would factor into the judgment, but that's only one of the criteria that factors into trademark law.

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UpAndAtThem
Joined: Mar 2009

Posted: Jul 14th, 2011 at 4:26 am
I took a quick look on the Valve site. The Portal logo always has a tiny TM beside, so yes it is a trademark.

From what I remember, you don't actually need to officially have a trademark is someone else steals your look to the extent that their product could be confused with yours. It's just easier to sue if it's a TM.

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NickKmet
Joined: Jan 2007

Posted: Jul 14th, 2011 at 10:43 am
It really comes down to whether or not the logos are similar, which they are. There's a hair care place downtown where I live that was being sued by a large corporation over their logo, even though they aren't in the same business. Valve most certainly can sue over this and most likely win.

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tinymhg
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Jul 14th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
See Nick they fear your ninja powers!

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213EDD
Joined: Sep 2007

Posted: Jul 14th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Just wait until you see how expensive Dell **** is after lawsuit!

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