You can't own a word. They own the character Defender not the word defender.
What Gash said.
I remember when Intel tried to trademark the lower case letter 'i'. Even the American legal system wouldn't let them get away with that one.
Actually, funny thing is, I'd have thought Defender (the character) was owned by Hero Games. Maybe they never bothered.
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Actually, funny thing is, I'd have thought Defender (the character) was owned by Hero Games. Maybe they never bothered.
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If Wikipedia's beleived (uh...) Cryptic bought the whole Champions IP - not just the rights, the whole... flipping... intellectual property, the PnP game and everything - and sold the rights to publish the 6th Edition of the PnP game back to Hero Games.
In a word: o_o'
In more: Cryptic own the Defender character proper.
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This is probably been posted but, if Champions online (CO) does come out, what will happen to City of Heroes Defender now that CO/Cryptic has stuck a trademark on the name "Defender"?
Is NCSOFT going to pay permission to use the name or change it?
Im confused