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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8483269" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>I don't have any of the books here to check, but as I recall Wizards kept using TSR's trade dress, including the logo, on AD&D (and Alternity, for that matter) product until the release of D&D 3.0. At that point, they stopped using the TSR logo on new things. They did, however, start selling PDFs of old material fairly quickly – I haven't been able to track down a date, but I did find <a href="http://www.candlekeep.com/library/articles/tsr_downloads.htm" target="_blank">a page with an FAQ</a> that refers to a price change taking place in February 2001, which would indicate that they were selling PDFs at a lower price before that. So effectively, the trademark was in continuous use.</p><p></p><p>At least until 2009, when Wizards stopped selling PDFs in response to piracy that made the 4e PHB2 PHB available on torrent sites within days of its official release (or possibly even the same day or maybe even some days before), and didn't start again until 2013. That may or may not count as abandoning the trademark.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8483269, member: 907"] I don't have any of the books here to check, but as I recall Wizards kept using TSR's trade dress, including the logo, on AD&D (and Alternity, for that matter) product until the release of D&D 3.0. At that point, they stopped using the TSR logo on new things. They did, however, start selling PDFs of old material fairly quickly – I haven't been able to track down a date, but I did find [URL='http://www.candlekeep.com/library/articles/tsr_downloads.htm']a page with an FAQ[/URL] that refers to a price change taking place in February 2001, which would indicate that they were selling PDFs at a lower price before that. So effectively, the trademark was in continuous use. At least until 2009, when Wizards stopped selling PDFs in response to piracy that made the 4e PHB2 PHB available on torrent sites within days of its official release (or possibly even the same day or maybe even some days before), and didn't start again until 2013. That may or may not count as abandoning the trademark. [/QUOTE]
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