Jumpin on 25 August 2013
| AstroGamer said: I expected this, Nintendo has a general policy of shutting down any fan projects that ask for money be it donations or actual purchase. they aren't too fond of movies either, especially given the Mario movie. Nintendo should let more of these things go on though, perhaps with much negotiations as they would be very interesting |
I think any company who owns trademarks and wants to keep them has a policy of defending them. There are two things a trademark holder must do to maintain their trademarks: register them at least once every 5 years, and defend them from infringement. If the holder doesn't defend their trademarks, they lose the rights to them.
So if Nintendo didn't defend the Metroid trademark, they would lose the Metroid trademark.
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