As you may have heard, famous Minecraft developer and founder of the video game studio Mojang  Markus "Notch" Persson was sued by Bethesda Softworks, developer of games like The Elder Scrolls series or Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, over the name "Scrolls", the newest game of the small software studio from Sweden. Apparently Bethesda thinks the name "Scrolls" could be mistaken for Bethesda's game series The Elder Scrolls and may shet a wrong light on it.

Well, it looks like Mojang can keep the name "Scrolls. Notch won an injunction on the name, though Bethesda can still appeal the ruling. “We won the interim injunction! We can keep using the name ‘Scrolls’. ZeniMax/Bethesda can still appeal the ruling, but I’m very happy.”

Apparently Notch also offered Bethesda a match of Quake 3. Three of the best players from Bethesda against Three of the best players of Mojang. If Mojang wins the match, they can keep the name, if Bethesda wins, Notch would change the name to Bethesda's desires.

http://www.vg247.com/2011/10/18/mojang-keeps-scrolls-name-following-interim-injunction/

http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/126196998826242048

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/9038258448/hey-bethesda-lets-settle-this

IMO, Bethesda really lost much respect from me, I see no way how The Elder Scrolls could be mistaken in any way with Scrolls. oh, and LOL at Notch's offer for the Quake 3 match.

That's good, it would have been bizarre if Bethesda won. But I'm pretty sure Bethesda didn't develop Quake 3!

I'm thinking about trademarking a new game called "Elder". Let's see how that turns out.

Bethesda made Quake 3? hmm?

Excellent! Hopefully Bethesda will stop being idiots and just forget the whole thing now.

That's outrageous. Bethesda worked for many years to invent the word "scrolls", and the court is gonna let some guy just take it from them? I'm literally foaming at the mouth with rage.

Changed the post accordingly.

Scrolls doesn't sound like a big deal but what about the word 'Mario' l?

There are thousands of people named Mario in the world. And of course they don't have to pay royalties to Nintendo.

I'm glad, the whole thing was silly. Didn't they originally steal the name from the Dead Sea Scrolls themselves?!

Everyone knows that Bethesda are only doing this because they have to be seen to protect their trademark as according to US law if they don't they will lose all rights to it and in the future if somone calls their fantasy RPG "The Older Scrolls" then they would be able to use the fact that Bethesda didn't try and stop someone else using scrolls as grounds that "The Elder Scrolls" is not a protected trademark.

It's stupid but that's how it works