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Originally Posted by injury log
Big17easy contended that a trademark holder loses their rights to their trademark if they fail to police that mark in one instance. There's no basis in law for that contention. That's all I said. I don't know how a statement of fact can conceivably be 'illogical'.
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I said no such thing. This is what I said ...
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Originally Posted by BIG17EASY
I'm not a lawyer either, but I would think that if MLB knowingly and purposely turns its back to OOTP's use of team names, that would be the first step toward a court determining that the trademark has been abandoned. What's the point of a trademark is it's not going to be enforced? Seriously?
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Originally Posted by injury log
I find it bizarre that some people here think MLB either wants to make money from OOTP, or wants to change OOTP. The money they could make won't cover their legal costs, and it's hard to imagine why they would care enough about the details of OOTP features to pay an expensive legal team to spend many hours going over them in detail. OOTP just isn't big enough for it to matter.
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Nobody, myself included, has said MLB is looking to make money off OOTP. As for changing OOTP, there are many regulars here, myself included, who are pleading with those making this claim to stop panicking. See the thread Markus started (and subsequently closed) earlier this week that brought the whole team nicknames issue to light.
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Originally Posted by injury log
I find it odd that you think it impossible to determine how a court would decide a case unless you can find a previous one that matches it in "EVERY SINGLE ASPECT". If one astronaut pushes another out of a space station, would you be unsure of what legal decision would be reached on a murder charge because you couldn't find an identical case in the legal archives?
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Nor would I be 100% sure what legal decision would be made. The one aspect that's different
could be what changes the decision.
All I was trying to do when I joined this thread was point out that MLB has a right to require OOTP to purchase a license to use MLB team names. Am I wrong?????