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[-] graynk@discuss.tchncs.de 57 points 1 day ago

Confused Supermassive with Supergiant for a moment, phew

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

LittleBigPlanet and Until Dawn are their big ones

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 15 hours ago

Yeah me too and then I realized I have no idea who supermassive are.

[-] bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Same! Then I remembered Supergiant has under thirty employees and that number made no sense.

[-] terabyterex@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

until this comment, so did i.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 4 points 1 day ago

I'm surprised these two never got into a trademark dispute...

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I am pretty sure you cannot trademark "super" + some other word. You have to be more specific. Well, at least in the USA.

[-] FatCrab@slrpnk.net 1 points 15 hours ago

It boils down to likelihood of confusion. I think there would be a legitimate concern here, tbh. But they could have come to an agreement when one registered their mark after the other one had already.

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago

I was talking about being able to get a trademark for anything that is "superX" where X could be literally any word in the dictionary. Its too vague and generic and such an application would almost certainly be rejected.

Supercell, Supergiant, and Supermassive are all trademarkable, and while "super" could cause some confusion, the USPTO doesn't care so much about that particular point because the wordmarks are all different and the logos are all different.

There is technically nothing stopping a computer software company trademark for "Microstar." Unless it already exists obviously, but for the sake of argument let's imagine it doesn't. Even though the name could cause some confusion with Microsoft, as long as the wordmark and logo design are different they USPTO won't care.

[-] FatCrab@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago

I have prosecuted plenty of trademarks. The logos and words are separate trademarks. For the word mark alone, Supergiant and Supermassive absolutely are likely to raise an initial LOC rejection in the same exact class of goods and services. It boils down to whether the similar words are likely to leave a confusingly similar market impression upon consumers. I legit think here it would be hard to argue around with a typical examining attorney--but the trademark office has a ton more lattitude in grants than the patent office, so it isn't out of the question it could've been successfully argued or even granted initially.

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[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago

I keep getting them mixed up with Supercell, too

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Omg yeah, came here to comment this. I was super sad for those 3 seconds

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