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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8479684" data-attributes="member: 19857">INAL, but all of these trademark games became idiotic once Wizards realized they could keep everything in print on DriveThru forever.  The fact that they're currently publishing Star Frontiers means that another company who doesn't publish Star Frontiers owning the trademark is going to have an uphill battle in any lawsuit.  From the lawyers I've seen write about this topic having an actual product you show a history of selling gives your side a lot of weight in a trademark dispute over just filing for the mark.It's interesting that a cursory glance through the trademark database suggests that much of what they're publishing on DT now is registered EXCEPT for Star Frontiers.  And I suspect that's partly because they didn't let a lot of those marks lapse in the first place (Gamma World, for example, periodically gets a new edition and trademark renewal), and partly because they figured out they could do this after Evil Hat registered the Star Frontiers trademark (which IIRC was when the Star Frontiers stuff showed up on DriveThru).</blockquote>