Comments on: Hasbro Inc Sends Cease and Desist Letter

By: jacobshortast

jacobshortast — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:00:23 +0000

What a joke. They have a right to protect their brand, sure, but the sad thing is it probably cost Hasbro as much to have this lame letter sent out as it would have cost for them to come up with a new and original idea for a toy or game.

If these huge corporations took 10% from their “legal” budget and incorporated that into their R & D or development budgets they wouldn’t have to go around slapping the hands of people “imitating” their “marks and logos” they would be too busy counting cash with theirs.

Oh, and even more important, they would have fans instead of people, who are apparently all over the world, calling them out as a corporate joke. I ma sure that sells a lot of games.

Good luck dealing with this.

By: STW

STW — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:32:45 +0000

While it may piss you off, and you may be 100% on the right side of this, I’d recommend you just change the logo and move on. You can’t win even if you “win.” I’ve been there and done that and have the tens of thousands of dollars in paid attorney invoices to show for it.

By: that is too sad too be funny

that is too sad too be funny — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:09:46 +0000

did you write a letter to hasbro?

By: Don Schindler

Don Schindler — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:16:35 +0000

The confusing thing to me is why you would expect anything else from a company that sells “Monopoly”. Duh.

Of course, they are going to come after you. It’s a Monopoly! They invent it. Jeesh.

Come on, Jim, let’s throw this up against the technorati wall and see if it takes off. Could be a nice distraction from the election? And it’s Monday.

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:03:26 +0000

OMG, two weeks ago I received notification from a small German water company (Gerolsteiner) that our private family homepage violates their trademark.
Let’s hope that at least the WIPO shows some common sense and denies the stupid complaint outright.

By: JayBee

JayBee — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:46:43 +0000

Whoa, and I thought, the “distinctive semi-circular bump off the middle of the top” is from Sesame Street™…
Are there no laws protecting satire in your country?
Don’t shareholders ever protest against the lawers ruining the image of the company they work for? Have they ever heard of “cost benefit ratio”?

May the Parker brothers rest in peace…

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:56:34 +0000

Hi
As I see the logo in question is still there, so I suppose the problems with Hasbro are past?
Else I’d like to get some updates on the issue, please.

Greetings from Germany, where your website/case is mentioned along with a recent newspaper article about Hasbros flood of lawsuits

Michael

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:36:23 +0000

incredible! That shows us only one thing: Even in bad times like the current financial situation, the lawyers try to squeeze out every f!$@?ng penny off the private men. Don’t they have real enemies to pick on? Like the ones that nearly perfectly imitate the board games and get off the hook without any problems?

Man, I hope you can stand against them. Usually I liked Hasbro for their games but they get more unsympathic with this kind of treatment of the private men.

By the way… why do they act like this? Your blog clearly says that you idetify yourself to the game “Monopoly”…
So I think it’s good advertisement for them and they even have not a dime to pay for it!

Sad but true but capitalism seems to have squeezed out every brain’s cell out of these lawyers’ heads…

best wishes from Switzerland!

By: T

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:36:37 +0000

lawyers are the plague of the modern times

By: Jens

Jens — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:42:28 +0000

You get even notice here in Germany (where I live) – lol.
It shows the absurdity of the system we all live in now. I like to see that your logo is still there – I love it.