ZeniMax is attempting to trademark the term "Dragonborn"

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#1  Edited By bigdaddy81

http://fusible.com/2012/05/zenimax-files-trademark-for-dragonborn/

In a move to seeming compete with likes of EA and Activision for the title of most hated video game company, ZeniMax is now trying to trademark the term "Dragonborn".

As many of you are surely aware, this term has been used by other forms of fantasy media and entertainment. Most notably, the "Song of Ice and Fire" series of novels where Dragonborn describes the Targaryan family line, and of course Dungeons and Dragons where Dragonborn are an actual race descended from dragons.

As an avid D&D player, I'm particularly disgusted with this news and hope the filing gets challenged or rejected outright.

Anyone else want to share in my moral outrage?

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#2  Edited By laserbolts

I wish I could but I just don't care.

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#3  Edited By Cirdain

Zenimax's legal team are a bit... bitch-y.

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#4  Edited By Winternet

You're dragonborn.

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#5  Edited By GreggD

Who gives a fuck.

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#6  Edited By Video_Game_King

@BigDaddy81 said:

As many of you are surely aware, this term has been used by other forms of fantasy media and entertainment. Most notably, the "Song of Ice and Fire" series of novels where Dragonborn describes the Targaryan family line, and of course

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@BigDaddy81 said:

Dungeons and Dragons

Dungeons and Dragons! I was totally going to say Dungeons and Dragons.

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#7  Edited By OllyOxenFree

How shameful.

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#8  Edited By PeasantAbuse

Burning my copy of Skyrim right now.

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#9  Edited By jeanluc  Staff

@Cirdain said:

Zenimax's legal team are a bit... bitch-y.

Yeah having your legal team show up in a news story every 3 weeks or so is pretty bad.

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#10  Edited By bicycleham

@laserbolts said:

I wish I could but I just don't care.

@GreggD said:

Who gives a fuck.

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#11  Edited By bigdaddy81

@Video_Game_King said:

@BigDaddy81 said:

As many of you are surely aware, this term has been used by other forms of fantasy media and entertainment. Most notably, the "Song of Ice and Fire" series of novels where Dragonborn describes the Targaryan family line, and of course

Elder Scr-

@BigDaddy81 said:

Dungeons and Dragons

Dungeons and Dragons! I was totally going to say Dungeons and Dragons.

What really irks me is that Dragonborn is my favorite race in Dungeons and Dragons.

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#12  Edited By MordeaniisChaos

So some people clearly need to look up the term.

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#13  Edited By DarkShaper

I haven't read any of A song of ice and fire yet and I don't play D&D so at first this seemed fine, but now this seems fucking crazy

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#14  Edited By Justin258

So what about the couple that named their kid "Dragonborn"? Or is my brain feeding me delusionary bullshit again? I could have sworn some couple named their kid Dragonborn or something like that.

EDIT: Look two posts below before quoting me, people.

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#15  Edited By bibamatt

I should think they'd have a struggle seeing as, like you said, the term has been used in other very similar IPs for years before Skyrim was a thing. Of course, I'm no lawyer!

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#16  Edited By BigChickenDinner

@believer258: They named the kid Dovahkiin, totally forgot about that by the way.

I wonder if they ever changed the kids name?

EDIT:

Oh and Fuck these people, Almost as bad a Monsanto.

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#17  Edited By AhmadMetallic
@believer258 said:

So what about the couple that named their kid "Dragonborn"? Or is my brain feeding me delusionary bullshit again? I could have sworn some couple named their kid Dragonborn or something like that.

Dovahkiin
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#18  Edited By Justin258

@BigChickenDinner said:

@believer258: They named the kid Dovahkiin, totally forgot about that by the way.

I wonder if they ever changed the kids name?

Oh. I knew something sounded off about the way I was remembering it.

Anyway, I hope they did change his name. That does not sound like a fun name to go through school with, and I know a thing or two about bad names to go through school with.

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#19  Edited By Revan_NL

As dumb as Charlie Sheen trying to trademark 'winning' or Paris Hilton trying to trademark the phrase 'that's hot'. But I guess someone from Bethesda is as crazy as those people...

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#20  Edited By GreggD

@Video_Game_King said:

@BigDaddy81 said:

As many of you are surely aware, this term has been used by other forms of fantasy media and entertainment. Most notably, the "Song of Ice and Fire" series of novels where Dragonborn describes the Targaryan family line, and of course

Elder Scr-

@BigDaddy81 said:

Dungeons and Dragons

Dungeons and Dragons! I was totally going to say Dungeons and Dragons.

See, this is how you make a dumb thread good. Oft times funny, never reverant. VGK.

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#21  Edited By MordeaniisChaos

@Revan_NL said:

As dumb as Charlie Sheen trying to trademark 'winning' or Paris Hilton trying to trademark the phrase 'that's hot'. But I guess someone from ZENIMAX ZENIMAX ZENIMAX. NOT BETHESDA, PLEASE STOP SAYING THAT PEOPLE, IT'S NOT EVEN WHAT THE OP SAID is as crazy as those people...

Not being a dick, I just want to be 100% clear, Zenimax is not Bethesda, and Bethesda is not Zenimax. This was not the developer, and putting their name in there isn't fair at all without a source saying that they wanted it in the first place.

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#22  Edited By TentPole

@MordeaniisChaos: Of course the developers are not the lawyers but Bethseda is Zenimax. Your argument is the same as saying Epic Games and the Epic Games legal team are not the same company. It is also like saying that back in the day Blizzard North was not part of Blizzard. They are part of Zenimax like my hand is part of me.

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#23  Edited By GreggD

@MordeaniisChaos: What if it was...Rogue Legal Teams? Sounds pretty sinister now, doesn't it? Actually, that could be a great spy plot. Or not.

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#24  Edited By BPRJCTX

So, am i the only one who thinks this trademark could be for an Eder Scrolls Spin Off?

That's a good name for an action adventure tittle, made by another studio...

The Elder Scrolls series is already spinning off into an MMO, so why not a God of War type of game?

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#25  Edited By MordeaniisChaos

@TentPole said:

@MordeaniisChaos: Of course the developers are not the lawyers but Bethseda is Zenimax. Your argument is the same as saying Epic Games and the Epic Games legal team are not the same company. It is also like saying that back in the day Blizzard North was not part of Blizzard. They are part of Zenimax like my hand is part of me.

What? The lawyers at Epic aren't the publisher that owns and publishes Epic's games. Zenimax isn't just the lawyer side of Bethesda. They also own id, and they just opened up their own little online studio to make the ES MMO. Let me give you an example. If someone at ZeniMax said "fire that dude at Bethesda" that would not be a Bethesda decision, that would be a Zenimax decision. It would also be like saying that any problems with any of Zenimax's other games, like Rage for example, was the fault of Bethesda.

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#26  Edited By Getz

it's just a formality, they'll never get it through. They're doing it as a just in case; when it comes time to show evidence that they were the originators of the concept then they'll be laughed out of court. I think you're overreacting.

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#27  Edited By audiosnow

Nintendo's trademarking of "It's on like Donkey Kong" is worse.

But, yeah, companies claiming pop culture for their own is trashy.