Ubisoft Disputes EA Trademark for "Ghost" [UPDATE]

Trade marks are stupid unless you invented the word brand new youndont own it. Candy crush ruined businesses because it trademarked candy so companies that had used it for their products had to switch or pay them a lot. I am also looking forward to COD Ghosts wildlands

This is kind of a funny reversal, since EA was the one that destroyed the copyright troll that owned the word 'edge', and now they're trying to copyright troll a common word themselves.

Anyone else looking forward to that Call of Duty: Ghosts sequel later this year? Wildlands, I believe it's called.

This was silly. I think that if games had a basic word prior to an attempt to trademark that word, the trademark shouldn't be possible. I can understand the full title: "Series name: Ghost something" or some unique combo "Ghostbusters". A simple word by itself though, ehhh...

The only impact I can think of is if the trademark had gone through, I wouldn't be picking up any of EA's games anytime soon. Negligible I know, not even an actual impact to the point where impact is even a concept.

Damn, everyone is trying to eat Ubisoft's breakfast lately.

as of 2:43 AM PST, February 28, 2016, I hereby proclaim the rights to the words "Me", "I", "I Am" and "I'm."as well as any other iterations of that word or its meaning.

have fun talking about yourself in third person from now on fuckheads. i own all of you.

I tried to trademark the word "troll" but the judge just laughed at me

You don't think they are both in on it do you ??? >_<

Man the world we live in is messed up, I understand the right to protect your work or intellectual property, but the system has gone too far, when words out of the dictionary can be trademarked that's a problem, in this case it didn't happen because of the conflict, but usually it does work and simple sayings or even a single word being owned just seems very wrong.

There is actually a lot of evidence that the culture we've created is an anti evolutionary system, by not sharing ideas we don't grow as fast, obviously this shouldn't mean you can just steal any idea you want, but it's going to be interesting to see what kind of effect this will actually have, right now the average IQ is dropping every year, this wasn't true even 50 years ago, but something has slowed our progress and every new generation is actually devolving on average, and it could be the way capitalism has made information exchange harder than ever

Thank you, companies and individuals just need to screw off sometimes when it comes to trademarks. The one that still disgusts me to no end was the whole issue with the Banner Saga using the term "Saga", then we had a successful mobile game company jump in and dispute the usage against a dev with a quality game that was not some ripoff phone app(A blatant ripoff in style and name of a prior game created recently before Candy Crush. People just make me sick sometimes, these disputes and what people are able to do with the law is just plain petty.

Of course they would lol

my god... even people diss ubisoft for trying to stop ea with the trademark of a common word like "ghost" this hate for ubisoft is borderline crazy, the evil guy here is ea, not ubisoft...

Good. Not only should spurious trademark attempts like this be rejected, the applicants should be severely fined.

@7tizz: Ubisoft were doing exactly that .. stopping someone trying to spuriously trademark a word !!

I guess "To the surprise of absolutely no one" didn't all fit in the article's title.

That's such a common word how could you possibly think you could trademark it? I mean that would be insane. Like trying to trademark the word 'react' or something.

Someone's been following the steps of FineBros.

Stupid EA for trademarking ghosts.

Stupid Ubisoft for trying to make a fuss.

Freakin' Hell...

This is dumb. I didn't see them say anything when CoD Ghosts came out. They don't own a common word.

If you're going to go stupid, go full stupid and try to patent "the" or "I'...