Patent and TradeMark Office has record of GW2 and Eye of the North

Yeah I'm evil, I'm making a new thread but Guild Wars: Eye of the North and Guild Wars 2 have now been trademarked by ArenaNet and it shows up in the US Patent and Trademark Office. And as far as I know you can't trademark something you have no intention on using. So I'd put this in the "confirmed" category just to keep people up to date. Standard disclaimer applies, nothing is official until announced by NCSoft or ArenaNet but paper filings and that it's live in the trademark office are fairly firm indicators.

GUILD WARS: EYE OF THE NORTH
Goods and Services IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Providing entertainment in the nature of electronic games, and multiplayer electronic gaming, and multiplayer game competitions, all by means of electronic or optical communications networks; providing information, electronic publications, online portal services and advice, all by means of electronic or optical networks, in the fields of electronic entertainment, games, amusement type activity games and multiplayer game competitions; providing a website featuring online computer games, musical performances, musical videos, related film clips, photographs and other multimedia materials; electronic publishing services, namely, development and dissemination of text and graphic works by means of electronic or optical communications networks, featuring entertainment in the field of games
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Design Search Code
Serial Number 77122933
Filing Date March 6, 2007
Current Filing Basis 1B
Original Filing Basis 1B
Owner (APPLICANT) NCsoft Corporation CORPORATION REPUBLIC OF KOREA SEUNG KWANG BUILDING 157-33 SAMSEONG-DONG GANGNAM-GU SEOUL, 135-090 REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Attorney of Record Peter J. Willsey
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE


GUILD WARS 2
Goods and Services IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Providing entertainment in the nature of electronic games, and multiplayer electronic gaming, and multiplayer game competitions, all by means of electronic communications networks; providing information, advice and electronic publications, namely, magazines and newsletters, all by means of electronic communications networks and in the fields of electronic entertainment, games, amusement type activity games and multiplayer game competitions; providing a website featuring online computer games, musical performances, musical videos, related film clips, photographs and other multimedia materials
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Design Search Code
Serial Number 77122945
Filing Date March 6, 2007
Current Filing Basis 1B
Original Filing Basis 1B
Owner (APPLICANT) NCsoft Corporation CORPORATION REPUBLIC OF KOREA SEUNG KWANG BUILDING 157-33 SAMSEONG-DONG GANGNAM-GU SEOUL, 135-090 REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Attorney of Record Peter J. Willsey
Prior Registrations 2887785;2887786;2890366
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

...nicee

haha I knew someone would find it soon.

That doesn't say anything about what they actually are, though.

how could you Inde...lol, this is gonna be huge

GW:EN is real? lol

still doesnt mean too much. remember when "utopia" was going to be the new chapter? we just need to sit back and wait for the official news.

still nice to know though, thanks Inde.

wow, that is evil...

Eh, I would guess that "Utopia" is nothing more but a codename. Not like you can trademark generic words anyway. I mean, it's not like Intel released a processor branded "Cedar Mill" - it came out as Pentium 4 6x1.

Nice to know. We don't the story, gameplay, or skills but its great they have the name! dumb name anyway.......

Nice post

It's enough to know there will be GW2 and GW:EN in the future release.

lol Inde's thread.

Now who/where are the mofos who were laughing at the posters/site when the news first broke at the inquirer website?

Why would they wait to get the patent until after the news was leaked? Obviously there's more of a threat of someone 'stealing' the name once the news is leaked before the patent, but I would've thought as soon as they agreed on this name, they would have gotten the patent.

Precisely. A name doesn't make the Inquirer article fully true. History will repeat itself.

Remember how chapter 2 and 3 had false information in magazines and media outlets?

Oh hell, dude...

I guess that means the Names are right, the playable races are wrong, and the gameplay is misleading...

Actually, you can copyright generic words. For example, the University of Notre Dame has copyrighted the word "Irish."

The fact is, "Utopia" is also copyrighted as well. A name doesn't mean everything else in the article was true.

Ever thought they might have done this in response to that website post to lead us off the trail of the real chapter coming up?

Maybe but...
not likely...

Wonder how much humble pie would be consumed on the 15th

You're telling me the Enquirer was right? Gaaahh!!!

Woot! Inde, you are tha man!








Uhh... I mean Wo-Man!

LOL, this was posted on the other HUGE thread about 5 hours ago, but NICE JOB in making a new thread. There is no doubt that those are the names.

ONE THING BOTHERS ME THOUGH. The date of registration is one day after Inquirer posted its article. =o

yeah, I feel like maybe they are doing that to mislead us.

Question - the phrase "Guild Wars" is always (c) Anet, right? No other company can use that name in conjunction with other words?

It takes along time to actually get the patent. They probably applied for it sometime ago and just now got it granted. Those things have to be researched by a group of lawyers to insure it does not infringe on someone elses patent.

I knew I should've started a new thread for this ... this has been getting some talk all day today already on the Inquirer thread: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...&postcount=876

Anyway ...

Note from the trademark records: Filing Date March 6, 2007 - the day after the Inquirer article was posted on all the fan forums.

i think with inventions and stuff it takes a long time to get a patent, but this process probably isnt very involved

hm, should I start saving fur now???? eye of the north sounds like a cold place---hope so, my monk yuki will be happy!

Exactly, note that these are applications for a Trademark, they are not registered. They have not been published for opposition nor have they been officially registered. That means that these are not under the same statue of protection granted to registered trademarks though they are in process. That is to the best of my understanding of trademarks.

In other words, don't bank on these being for real. Granted a number of the trademarks listed are not registered, they still have a period of opposition to go through before they can be officially registered names.

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield...h=Submit+Query

None, cause we hate pies like Gaile.

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haha yeah the more i think about it, the more i say this is a clever attempt to trick us.

do you have any idea how much it costs to get a patent? well...around 2k, but would NCSoft have enough guts to play around with us? Ok that came out wrong, let me give it another try...would they waste their time and effort just to fool a bunch of people they see as pieces of hard cold cash? came out wrong again...I give up. XD

FOR Future Reference:

A Trademark is NOT a Patent.

Trademarks can be filed more quickly than patents can.

if it's just a trademarked slogan or title i dont think itd take too long to figure out that it's not in use

It would be really goofy to go to this extreme to fool and distract everyone... for a matter of a couple of weeks. Please. Anet is not exactly known for their misinformation. This pretty much proves that Eye of the North and GW2 are 99.9% true. The only thing that would cause this to be not true, is a major decision to change the names/gameplan in the future.

Thanks for the details. Much appreciated !!!

I wonder OP was smoking something.. this is old news and needs to be closed.

LOL, the OP is the admin of the site

even so its so awesome it deserves a new thread.