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Nintendo sometimes confuses me =(.



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kevinrize said:

Nintendo sometimes confuses me =

How?



oni-link said:
kevinrize said:

Nintendo sometimes confuses me =

How?

I dont know they just do but maybe thats why i think theyre the best.



HappySqurriel said:
KungKras said:

Who on eath trademarks a god? O_o


Someone who plans to make a product that uses that name ...

You can trade mark just about anything as long as the scope is limited enough, and trademarks are generally weak enough that all they prevent people from doing is making obvious copies of your product with very similar names.

Now, I wonder what Nintendo plans to do with this trademark being that I don't think that it is a particularly good "name" to use in English speaking countries. To me this means that it will be a subtitle to another product, a product only released in Japan, or a product that most English speakers aren't sure how to pronounce.

This! Just trademarking her is terribly short-sighted: I'll patent (and come on, trademark too, since I'm at it) Allah! 1 billion Muslims will have to pay me five times a day!  BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!   

Somebody suggested Jesus: poor choice, most Christians pray just once a week or even less...   

I got also a  cool slogan ready: "NO PAY, NO HEAVEN, NO VIRGINS".  O-) 



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Quite brilliant on their part. Acquire the rights to Amaterasu, whom the Japanese Emperors claim as an ancestor, thus claiming a right to the Emperor, and thus claiming a right to Japan itself, suspend the constitution, then pass a law dissolving the Computer Entertainment branch of Sony

Brilliant



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trestres said:

Is there a difference between the names Amaterasu and Ameratsu? I heard they stood for the same deity, but can someone confirm this?


Amaterasu is the mythological mother of Japan.

As far as I know, Ameratsu is an inexplicable butchering of Amaterasu's name.

Also, NiKKoM's comment has the ring of truth. T_T



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Alby_da_Wolf said:
HappySqurriel said:
KungKras said:

Who on eath trademarks a god? O_o


Someone who plans to make a product that uses that name ...

You can trade mark just about anything as long as the scope is limited enough, and trademarks are generally weak enough that all they prevent people from doing is making obvious copies of your product with very similar names.

Now, I wonder what Nintendo plans to do with this trademark being that I don't think that it is a particularly good "name" to use in English speaking countries. To me this means that it will be a subtitle to another product, a product only released in Japan, or a product that most English speakers aren't sure how to pronounce.

This! Just trademarking her is terribly short-sighted: I'll patent (and come on, trademark too, since I'm at it) Allah! 1 billion Muslims will have to pay me five times a day!  BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!   

Somebody suggested Jesus: poor choice, most Christians pray just once a week or even less...   

I got also a  cool slogan ready: "NO PAY, NO HEAVEN, NO VIRGINS".  O-) 

You can't use common used phrases. This is why Donald Trump couldn't copyright "You're Fired!"

You can register a book called "Allah," and then no one can sell a book titled "Allah."



Smashchu2 said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
HappySqurriel said:
KungKras said:

Who on eath trademarks a god? O_o


Someone who plans to make a product that uses that name ...

You can trade mark just about anything as long as the scope is limited enough, and trademarks are generally weak enough that all they prevent people from doing is making obvious copies of your product with very similar names.

Now, I wonder what Nintendo plans to do with this trademark being that I don't think that it is a particularly good "name" to use in English speaking countries. To me this means that it will be a subtitle to another product, a product only released in Japan, or a product that most English speakers aren't sure how to pronounce.

This! Just trademarking her is terribly short-sighted: I'll patent (and come on, trademark too, since I'm at it) Allah! 1 billion Muslims will have to pay me five times a day!  BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!   

Somebody suggested Jesus: poor choice, most Christians pray just once a week or even less...   

I got also a  cool slogan ready: "NO PAY, NO HEAVEN, NO VIRGINS".  O-) 

You can't use common used phrases. This is why Donald Trump couldn't copyright "You're Fired!"

You can register a book called "Allah," and then no one can sell a book titled "Allah."

I count on USPTO legendary sloppiness about checking filings admissibility!   

But Japan patent office must have different rules from USA anyway, because Amaterasu is a common used word amongst the Japanese as much as Allah is amongst Muslims...



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NiKKoM said:

Probably another awesome game we will never see in the west...

i will stick with this and say no more



I'm still thinking it's a code name for their upcoming system.