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Mythic Sues Microsoft Over Mythica MMORPG

Posted by simoniker on Monday December 22, 2003 @10:42AM from the absolutely-lindowsiculous dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mythic Entertainment, developers of PC MMO videogame Dark Age of Camelot, has filed suit against Microsoft, arguing that Microsoft's upcoming MMORPG Mythica is too similar in name and content (it 'also employs Norse images and mythology') to its own name and flagship title. Maybe if game developers could dream up a genre other than fantasy, problems like this would be averted..."

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Re:Lindows reference by One+Louder · 2003-12-22 11:13 · Score: 4, Interesting

Mythic has a much better case than Microsoft has against Lindows.com.
"Window" is a generic term used in the field of computer science to describe an artifact commonly found in graphical user interfaces.
In this case, however, the term "mythic" is fanciful (though Microsoft may argue it's descriptive) in regards to a game, and Microsoft's usage includes the *entire* trademark.