Postal Wins Court Case Brought by USPS

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out a press release announcing Postal developer Running With Scissors has been ruled victorious in a court case brought by the United States Postal Service. This seems to be the culmination of a trademark suit which began in 1997 after the release of the original Postal, as the USPS commented "All of us at the Postal Service have a sense of humor, but there is nothing funny about your game 'Postal'", and then tried to prove the Postal Service has a proprietary use of the word 'Postal'. Running With Scissors have fun with this legal resolution: "With unlimited financial resources comes unlimited ego. POSTAL and POSTAL 2 represent everything the USPS isn't: a successful private enterprise that will never have to rely on an irrevocable government contract to keep its pockets perpetually lined with cash."

Comments

Re:Lame.

[macdaddy357]

The fact that the expression, "going postal," meaning losing your mind and going on a killing spree even exists indicates serious problems at the USPS. Their time and money would be better spent trying to improve workplace conditions so that no one ever goes "postal" again than bringing SLAPP suits against video game producers.

Re:Frivolous lawsuit, like McDonald's suit

[mstorer3772]

Every time some (half) wit chimes in with that comparison, it pisses me off.

See, McDonnolds used to keep their coffee just below boiling. REALLY FUCKING HOT. No where near a temperature where you could actually drink it. This was policy. Their thinking was that people at the drive through were less likely to drink the coffee right away, so the hotter it was, the better.

Okay, but see, people tend to hold their drinks in their croches. I've done it. And when nearly boiling coffee is spilled on your pink parts it can do you serious, long term damage. Mr Happy doesn't like second and third degree burns.

So McDonnalds had already lost Many of these cases (no, I don't know how many). There was a legal precedent that had been set. Burn yourself, McDonnalds gives you some money.

The point of the price tag on that particlar lawsuit is that the only way to get McDonnalds to actually change their policy was to make it too expensive to keep things as they were.

So you jack the suit into the roof just to get the attention of this corporate monolith.

From what I heard (and it's just a rumor) the lady took most of the money and handed to some burn victim charity.

A little poking around revealed that some of what I read was right, some was not:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& oe =UTF-8&q=coffee+spill+lawsuit+mcdonalds&spell= 1

None of the linked pages say what happened to the money that was awarded, though the two I looked at agreed that the final sum was far less than the 2.7 million dollars of the original decision.

Potential 3rd degree burns on your crotch, as company policy. To hell with that.