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AbbathTheGrim on 12 January 2016

They tried but possibility of confusion may have stopped their effort:

The filing, which was filed in October last year, surfaced a few days ago through a NeoGAF member, and has since been denied by the USPTO on grounds of “likelihood of confusion,” due to a similar mark already being trademarked. Thanks to a trademarked service LP Let’z Play, Sony was denied.

- apparently Sony still can try something, if there is something to try:

Sony now has six months from the decision’s issue date, which was December 29, to address the refusal, providing “evidence as to why the refusal should be withdrawn.”

http://www.n3rdabl3.co.uk/2016/01/12/147687/sony-attempts-and-fails-to-trademark-lets-play/

http://www.polygon.com/2016/1/12/10754130/lets-play-trademark-sony

So yeah, if it weren't for the existing patent, Sony could have scored this one.

 

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Ultrashroomz on 12 January 2016

Why did they even try? -___-



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Azerth on 12 January 2016

Youtube users are going to be mad if sony gets it



d21lewis on 12 January 2016

Nintendo should have gotten it. I would have died happy!



AZWification on 12 January 2016

Well, that's pretty damn surprsing!



                
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ArchangelMadzz on 12 January 2016

Even if they successfully trademarked the words they can't remove it from Youtube video titles, or even if they would.

Every video game that has been published has their name trademarked yet you can put it in video titles.

They must be launching some 'lets play' service on PS4 and wanted to trademark it so microsoft can't do the same and call it 'Xbox Let's play'.



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SWORDF1SH on 12 January 2016

I think some people are confused what the trademark actually is for. It's not to stop people using it.



AbbathTheGrim on 12 January 2016
Ultrashroomz said:
Why did they even try? -___-

They almost got it though so it could have made sense, for whatever they wanted it.

ArchangelMadzz said:
Even if they successfully trademarked the words they can't remove it from Youtube video titles, or even if they would.

Every video game that has been published has their name trademarked yet you can put it in video titles.

They must be launching some 'lets play' service on PS4 and wanted to trademark it so microsoft can't do the same and call it 'Xbox Let's play'.

I doubt Sony would dive themselves into that shit-pile, so I guess they wanted to prevent something, or take advantage of something, maybe.



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

Ruler on 12 January 2016
Ultrashroomz said:
Why did they even try? -___-

 

why not? they got more attention 



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