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Karma Gets The War Z's Trademark Suspended

Posted on Sunday, December 23 @ 14:51:20 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack
These zombies wish they were in a different game.

You may have heard about the tons of fallout from The War Z's developer being rude to its customers, but that's only the beginning.

The United States Patent & Trademark Office site shows The War Z's trademark as suspended. The reason is for the title's striking similarity—I'm seeing a trend here—to World War Z, a best-selling novel that came out six years ago.

One of the most interesting details on the page is when the original trademark was filed: July of this year. Given the unfinished and extremely rough state of the game, it appears that it only began development a few months ago. If that's the case, it's no wonder the team had to resort to stealing content, assets, and art from other media.

It looks like The War Z won't be the open world surival-horror game that breaks the genre out of its infancy. Hopefully a developer that knows what it's doing can see its promise and finally give us what we've all been waiting for without the BS.
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  • Squiggy
    Squiggy
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Dec 23rd, 2012 at 3:22 pm
    This whole The War Z thing reminds me of Limbo of the Lost, only less funny.
    0 3
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Dec 23rd, 2012 at 3:37 pm
    Rippoff. I may have played it if it was really free 2 play and not a buy in.
    0 1
  • LinksOcarina
    LinksOcarina
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Dec 23rd, 2012 at 3:45 pm
    im not going to lie...I don't think this copywright holds much water.

    That said, **** War Z.
    0 3
  • pennpsu
    pennpsu
    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Dec 24th, 2012 at 1:14 pm
    You think so? If I made a game featuring a British spy who drives fancy cars, is smooth with the ladies and called it simply Bond, that no one would raise any objections? I promise you their patent gets invalidated.
    0 0
  • LinksOcarina
    LinksOcarina
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Dec 24th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
    Thats different. That is trademarking an actual character name. This is a claim on a similar sounding name.

    So no, it wouldn't hold up still.
    0 0
  • pennpsu
    pennpsu
    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Dec 25th, 2012 at 7:52 am
    They straight up stole the name War Z from the book World War Z, complete with zombies. It makes absolutely no difference if your tradmarking a name or title, same infringement laws apply. It was released ahead of the movie World War Z also, which adds to the perception the two are connected. The question the USTPO asks is confusion......will the average person think the game is somehow related to the book or movie. That's clearly a yes. I promise they lose this.
    0 0
  • wildmario
    wildmario
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Dec 23rd, 2012 at 4:19 pm
    You expect the guy behind Big Rigs to actually do something decent?
    0 2
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Dec 23rd, 2012 at 7:41 pm
    Is this the same dev who made the Arma Mod and got a contract to make a standalone or is this the dev who announced a complete ripoff once the standalone was announced?

    If the latter, then good. Fuck em
    0 1
  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Dec 23rd, 2012 at 7:46 pm
    No relation to Day Z, just a ripoff to deter people and tarnish their reputation.
    0 1
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Dec 24th, 2012 at 9:30 am
    Even their art has pictures of zombies stolen from Walking Dead.



    This game needs to be killed off, burned, buried and the land its buried under salted so nothing may live. Gamers dont like the whole Zynga/cellphone game ripoffs, then we cannot abide when a pc game tries to do the same and releases a damn alpha without any of the features it promised. Oh and you have a 4 hour respawn unless you pay real money.
    0 0
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Dec 24th, 2012 at 9:33 am
    My link didnt show up, search kotaku for walking dead war z image.
    0 0

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