Hazelight Studios, the team behind A way out and this year It takes two, abandoned the trademarks behind It Takes Two after Take-Two Interactive filed a trademark complaint against it, it has been revealed.
This news comes from Eurogamer, reports that Hazelight has indeed abandoned her trademark for “It Takes Two,” but remains hopeful that a studio will reach a resolution. The publication’s report indicates that Take-Two filed a trademark complaint against Hazelight shortly after It Takes Two was released. Records show Hazelight later relinquished ownership of the name.
Eurogamer Has reached out to Hazelight for comment, but the studio says it “cannot comment on ongoing disputes,” but that the team “hopes it will be resolved.” As noted in the report, Hazelight does not dispute that it was forced to give up its name trademark “It Takes Two” at the request of Take-Two, which can be viewed here Notice of Disclaimer from the US Patent Office.
Despite speculation that the trademark claim could lead to Hazelight having to rename her latest game, industry analysts believe that’s not the case.
“The trademark conflict means that Hazelight cannot protect the name, not that they will be forced to change it,” says F-Squared consulting firm founder and industry analyst Mike Futter wrote on Twitter. “They can change it if they want to protect the name, but honestly, it’s probably not worth it for them to do it.”
A trademark conflict means that Hazelight cannot protect the name, not that they will be forced to change it. They can change it if they want to protect the name, but honestly, it’s probably not worth it for them.
– Mike Futter (@Futterish) December 3, 2021
Futter continued, citing that Take-Two wasn’t saying Hazelight was infringing, but that Take-Two didn’t want Hazelight to be able to defend “It Takes Two”. He says this could come into play in a theoretical situation where Take-Two might want to create a corporate motto of “It’s Take-Two,” which Hazelight might have stopped because of. efforts to trademark “It Takes Two . ”
Lawyer Richard Hoeg. method that Take Two uses to extract concessions from applicants. ”
He added that if you look at the Panel of Trials and Appeals, you can see that Take-Two has filed renewal requests for at least 25 challenges in the past three months – he said the companies other games take six to seven years to achieve that much challenge. .
I have talked a lot about this issue in #VirtualLegality few days ago. “It Takes Two Question” isn’t as bad as the sheer volume and challenge that Take Two uses to extract concessions from applicants.https://t.co/sL8C2dJhPx
– Richard Hoeg (@HoegLaw) December 3, 2021
“Take Two is being very, very aggressive,” Hoeg said. “In comparison, It Takes Two, is not a company name and it is of limited use in any case due to the sheer number of goods and services that have used the phrase. I suspect they simply don’t trademark and rely on copyright. ”
Hoeg’s Twitter thread ended with him saying that his reading of Take-Two was that it challenged almost anything it could find using one of its words “Two” .
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[Source: Eurogamer]
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