Decadelong trademark fight culminates in new game hinting at "Web3 innovation."
  • MeaanBeaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    223·
    2 months ago

    I mean, isn’t that how trademark is supposed to work? I’m no expert or anything but the original creator hadn’t used the trademark in over ten years and ostensibly had no intention to do so. He also didn’t respond to the notice of opposition.

    Seems to me the courts did the right thing in letting gametech have the trademark if they intended to use it.

    That’s not to say that I support them making a shitty Cryptobro game but them obtaining the trademark by itself doesn’t really seem shady to me.

    • boogetyboo@aussie.zoneEnglish
      91·
      2 months ago

      Yep, that’s exactly how it works. They’re douchebags but this is how TMs work.

    • missingno@fedia.io
      5·
      2 months ago

      I would be entirely fine with Flappy Bird passing into the public domain, but this isn’t even that. They actually own it now.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    144·
    2 months ago

    Very loaded and negative title. People wanted to make Flappy Bird publically available again, sincd its creator took it down indefinitely.

    • MysticKetchup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      382·
      2 months ago

      It’s very easy to make a mechanical clone of the game if someone wanted to play it.

      This is purely about greedy crypto bros trying to grift off of Flappy Bird and using legal loopholes to steal the trademark

    • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachtsEnglish
      151·
      2 months ago

      They could’ve done that without the greedy crypto aspect, but as the enshittification trend goes, they just couldn’t help themselves.

      But Gametech’s efforts to legally acquire the Flappy Bird name seem to go back much further than that. Back in 2014, an outfit called Mobile Media Partners tried to claim the Flappy Bird trademark in a filing made mere days after Nguyen pulled the game from the App Store.

      Purely opportunistic bullshit and painting it as anything innocent is disingenuous.

    • missingno@fedia.io
      91·
      2 months ago

      Did you even read the article?

      This is not the same Flappy Bird. The original game already has been preserved, the APK is floating around if you know where to look.

      This new game is an outright scam using stolen IP to trick users into thinking this is the original.

      • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
        22·
        2 months ago

        They’re scum for the grift but flappy bird doesn’t deserve a trademark. US IP laws are draconian enough.