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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8587365" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>To be completely "fair" - they likely would only have a trademark dispute with them in the PTO right now if LaNasa hadn't filed a pre-emptive lawsuit against them first. I think Wizards would have been happy to let the PTO process work because it's very likely that they would have gotten a much cheaper win than having to go through a lawsuit.</p><p></p><p>But it doesn't change your underlying point that they are going after folks who infringe on their IP.</p><p></p><p>(And trying to stop people from pirating books is almost impossible. It's whack-a-mole - you can take one down and another will rise up in its place. It also can take a huge amount of resources just to figure out who's doing it and where to serve the papers - throw in international law and it gets worse. Who knows what's going on on their back end - at least they aren't overreacting and pulling down their digital content like they did in the 4e era...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8587365, member: 19857"] To be completely "fair" - they likely would only have a trademark dispute with them in the PTO right now if LaNasa hadn't filed a pre-emptive lawsuit against them first. I think Wizards would have been happy to let the PTO process work because it's very likely that they would have gotten a much cheaper win than having to go through a lawsuit. But it doesn't change your underlying point that they are going after folks who infringe on their IP. (And trying to stop people from pirating books is almost impossible. It's whack-a-mole - you can take one down and another will rise up in its place. It also can take a huge amount of resources just to figure out who's doing it and where to serve the papers - throw in international law and it gets worse. Who knows what's going on on their back end - at least they aren't overreacting and pulling down their digital content like they did in the 4e era...) [/QUOTE]
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