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<blockquote data-quote="TheYeti1775" data-source="post: 5079007" data-attributes="member: 20914">Thanks for coming over Rob.As a good bit of this board started gaming in the 70's, yeah Army Building was in full effect before the Internet.&nbsp; Also the armies of the world were using the term Army Builder in various reports before our Grandfathers were born.&nbsp; It is also especially prevalent in many board war games.If I remember right there were plenty of old BBS around that discussed it as well.&nbsp; So the term to me if very very generic.But on the other foot, I would wager most of it was 'Army Building' vice 'Army Builder'.&nbsp; While you got the Trademark free and clear, defending realistically isn't a task you should take on.&nbsp; Unless of course you have money pouring out your buttocks more than a poo flinging monkey.But since we are on the Trademark issues, did your company purchase the rights to Lone Wolf?Your venture started in 1993 to quote your website. <a href="http://www.wolflair.com/index.php?context=more&amp;page=background" target="_blank">Background - More - Lone Wolf Development</a>But the Lone Wolf game books, novels (choose your own adventures) and various computer software were since the 80's.&nbsp; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks</a>)All of which I believe is owned by Mongoose Publishing currently.Sounds like they could send you a C&amp;D just on your company name.As your a gaming company, profiting on another gaming company's stuff.Now don't that throw a wrench into the monkey works.Course it's generic use is already out there.<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Army-building" target="_blank">Army-building - Transformers Wiki</a>But of course that has a '-' in it.So Jim will just have to rename to Jim's Army-Builder, and there would be poo to be done.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheYeti1775, post: 5079007, member: 20914"] Thanks for coming over Rob. As a good bit of this board started gaming in the 70's, yeah Army Building was in full effect before the Internet. Also the armies of the world were using the term Army Builder in various reports before our Grandfathers were born. It is also especially prevalent in many board war games. If I remember right there were plenty of old BBS around that discussed it as well. So the term to me if very very generic. But on the other foot, I would wager most of it was 'Army Building' vice 'Army Builder'. While you got the Trademark free and clear, defending realistically isn't a task you should take on. Unless of course you have money pouring out your buttocks more than a poo flinging monkey. But since we are on the Trademark issues, did your company purchase the rights to Lone Wolf? Your venture started in 1993 to quote your website. [url=http://www.wolflair.com/index.php?context=more&page=background]Background - More - Lone Wolf Development[/url] But the Lone Wolf game books, novels (choose your own adventures) and various computer software were since the 80's. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks[/url]) All of which I believe is owned by Mongoose Publishing currently. Sounds like they could send you a C&D just on your company name. As your a gaming company, profiting on another gaming company's stuff. Now don't that throw a wrench into the monkey works. Course it's generic use is already out there. [url=http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Army-building]Army-building - Transformers Wiki[/url] But of course that has a '-' in it. So Jim will just have to rename to Jim's Army-Builder, and there would be poo to be done. [/QUOTE]

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