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Thursday, July 29, 2021

TSR3 Abandons Three Graphical Trademarks


I woke this morning to a PM linking me to the below link:

https://www.trademarkelite.com/trademark/trademark-detail/90148524/TSR

What makes this even more interesting, is that the above trademark was approved (as best as I can tell) on June 16th, 2021.

The following trademarks are also pending abandonment:


https://www.trademarkelite.com/trademark/trademark-detail/90124287/TSR






Here's what we have on "TEAS Express Abandonment":



You can follow all of the TSR-linked Trademarks at the following link. Note, it includes trademarks from other companies in different fields named TSR. Also note, that "TSR" itself is apparently NOT trademarked by TSR, just the graphical representations of such.



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3 comments:

  1. So they never applied for the TSR name (which they could have totally had) but they applied for ripoffs of the vintage logos (which anyone could tell would bring action from WotC)? That sounds pretty incompetent even for these guys.

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  2. So they never applied for the TSR name (which they could have totally had) but they applied for ripoffs of the vintage logos (which anyone could tell would bring action from WotC)? That sounds pretty incompetent even for these guys.

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  3. Why would it "bring action" from Wizards? Wizards doesn't use the trademarks. Did they even acquire them? If so, what have they done to retain them?

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