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- MAdaXe42, on 10/12/2007, -4/+493You mean this isn't the dig??? I've been duped! All this time I thought I was bringing back a lost civilization!
- Red_Eye, on 10/12/2007, -5/+304Digg wont loose their trademark because a trademarked name implies a product or company. As far as I know "The Dig" wasnt a website full of megalomaniacs who thought that the world revolved around their opinions.
So since there is no likely confusion between the two trademarks then the suit will be tossed and both trademarks will be enforced. Lucas is just exercising their legal requirement to defend their trademarks or risk losing them. A little overzealous but it provides 100% protection for them in the future. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+221"The Dig has just one g in it, and Digg doesn't have a 'the' in it."
Yeah, just like that time those jerks at google stopped people from using gooogle.com - troydoogle7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+204That game was amazing.. I have been visiting this site all these years because I thought that I was playing the game....
I even wear a spacesuit and everything...... - black|math, on 10/12/2007, -4/+178The best publicity would have been to not ***** up star wars.
- retawd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+162@Red Eye
That was funny, accurate, and intelligent. What are you doing on digg? - djackmanson, on 10/12/2007, -6/+138Actually, now I think about it, LucasArts is perfectly correct.
Don't you realise just how many people hear the name 'digg' and think "OMG that must be related to that obscure computer game from 1995 released by George Lucas. I'd better check it out!"
[/sarcasm] - anastrophe, on 10/12/2007, -8/+136unbelievable. they're opposing it because apparently lucasarts released a game in 1995 called "The Dig". on that basis they think that digg competes in their arena. laughable. pathetic. maybe george reads digg and will slap his legal staff silly.
- canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -11/+138meesa tink georgie great bossa. he give me jobba in movie even though mui mui people donna like me.
- gyrfalcon, on 10/12/2007, -22/+133The Dig was a pretty cool game for it's day... It actually had something called a "plot", but I wouldn't expect you to understand.
- ijacker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+111urge to kill rising...
- neoform, on 10/12/2007, -20/+125Yes, it would a tragedy if other sites were allowed to say "digg it" instead of "vote it". I think the world as we know it would cease to exist.
- andrewgreene, on 10/12/2007, -15/+113Before everyone jumps all over Lucas himself, the possibility that this is just an act of lawyers thinking that they're trying to protect a trademark needs to be considered.
Granted that may or may not be the case. - Suchmann, on 10/12/2007, -4/+97Thank god someone spoke up. I thought I was alone here.
- MAdaXe42, on 10/12/2007, -7/+89*Puts on tinfoil hat*
Digg have organised for lucasfilm to file an opposition on their trademark in order to strengthen their position. Lucasfilm no longer care about 'The Dig' trademark, as the brand is obsolete and no longer relevant to their business or their merchandising. They have filed what they know to be a frivolous suit with a view to Digg winning with ease, thus setting a precedence for the prevalence of their trademark.
*Removes tinfoil hat*
Seriously, it happens. It's a strawman. - Anrkist, on 10/12/2007, -18/+95http://lucasarts.vintagegaming.org/index.php?do=game&gameid=12 - The shelves are full of this crap, they are hoping the publicity will free up some room in the back for more anatomicaly correct wookies.
- black|math, on 10/12/2007, -2/+641995! Might as well be frozen in carbonite.
- cannibaljp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+66in a related story:
Lucasfilm sues construction project in Boston! - 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+60 Dear Diary: "I think I'm going to sue "Lucasfilm" because their name is too close and similar to my "Mucusfilm".
And I think George Lucas obviously based Chewbacca on me"
Signed, The Yeti - ed2hip, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44rimshot please
- badfrog, on 10/12/2007, -12/+52Great idea Lucas! Piss off your major demographic!
- shootdashit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38until this story posted here, i'd honestly never heard of this game. somehow i'm still able to tell the dffierence between the two.
- JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -8/+41I agree, there are many similarities between The Dig and Digg.
The Dig is about an asteroid hitting Earth potentially causing its destruction, while Digg is bent on the destruction of non-biased information making it to the front page through fanboyism, religious and political interests.
From the Wikipedia article for The Digg: "While the planet has a high state of technology, it is in a state of decay and appears to be devoid of particularly intelligent animals."
From Digg: "While Digg's servers have a high state of technology, the user base is in a state of decay and appears to be devoid of particularly intelligent animals."
From the Wikipedia article for The Dig: "The title 'Dig' refers to the whole process of investigation and exploration of the planet, in order to make the alien machines work again and discover what happened to the lost civilization."
Try finding a pro PS3 article on the front page of Digg. The level of difficulty is parallel to making alien machines work again. - UncleHenry, on 10/12/2007, -5/+38Ba-dum tsh!
(Is that how you would type a rimshot?) - thundercleese, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37Wonder if LucasArts will go after Disney's http://www.dig.com site... It is a redirect to http://corporate.disney.go.com/wdig/index.html
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+39This is just another great example of LucasArts trying to "dig" themselves out of the hole their enterprise has fallen into.
- lazlonger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28nah. i like the "tsh" attack on his cymbal hit. i think your compressor is too fast.....
- 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Moorbo has contacted the giant creator's of Dig Dug.
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0002QWU4G.01-A1FVJNIK8SSHOX._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Let's see what they think of this tiny Lucas human and his so-called copyright claims... - Mattie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24They should sue these squatters instead:
http://www.thedigg.com - solemnraven, on 10/12/2007, -8/+31i think Tate Diggs should sue them both.
- fixrim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22What about the game "Dig Dug" it came out in 1982.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_Dug - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22I'm™ glad™ they™ brought™ this™ up™. It™ seems™ that™ LucasFilm is™ violating™ several™ of® my™ trademarks.
- asmitty, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Someone correct me here if I'm wrong, but Lucas has to file any trademark case such as this just to show that they are actively trying to protect their trademark. If they don't file this suit, then the next guy can come around and say "Hey, they didn't fight digg.com, so I can make dig.com, or the digg tshirts, or anything similar". Lucas may know this is ridiculous and that they will lose, but still have to pursue to show they still care about The Dig trademark
- mwebb1984, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20@ GyroTech, "googol" is a real word --- it's 10^100. "google" was a made up word, although it has since been added to the english language, meaning "to search for information on the internet, especially on the Google search engine".
- ohgeetee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22The problem is that the trademark infringement 'industry' perpetuates itself. If a company doesn't go after potential trademark infringements, they can lose the trademark when someone actually does attempt to take it, based on inaction.
If I understand it correctly, a company could put out a game next year called The Dig, and Lucasarts could file for trademark infringement. The company could then go back and find all of the similar marks not contested by LucasArts and say that the mark wasn't protected properly, therefor given up by LucasArts. I'm not a trademark lawyer, but this is how it was explained to me. - treyd, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_%28percussion%29
"It is often spoken as "badum-bum-CHING!", "ba-dum CHSHH!" or "badum-PSH!" or similar." - ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25Who you calling substandard scumm? ;)
- Takuro, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25So every time I say "I'll dig into that pile of delicious assorted sandwiches" I'll have to pay George Lucas $2.
Seriously. They're being redonkulous. - JanusAmon, on 10/12/2007, -14/+31Hell, Digg might as well sue Diggs for copyright infringement.
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=cmvntj.2.2 - dougm68, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20I think K Rose brought this down on digg himself.
He was the one actively saying no one else can have dig, digg, or dugg in their possession or we'll sue.
Ok that's not verbatim but you see the point.
I'm sure Lucas Arts would be happy to negotiate. Is Kevin?
-GL - dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Disney Internet Group
- Coven, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20I'm sorry...what you said was muffled by Hannity's balls in your mouth. Can you repeat yourself?
- OwdenBowden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11You should not be allowed to trademark Common words Like Dig Dug and the like. This™ crap™ needs™ to™ end™ now™.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11They must be running out of money. Oh well, time to modify Star Wars again and re-release it.
- mistermick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"The word "the" included in the opposer's mark is one of the most commonly used English words and its presence or absence is of little note to consumers."
While this statement is true, it doesn't apply to this case. The game title is a noun not a verb. It refers to the archaeological dig more than the actually digging involved. If you leave "the" out of the title it becomes a verb. If I spoke to someone about the game and called it, "Dig," I'm sure I would receive a confused look and a response of, "Oh, you mean 'The Dig'?"
Digg is both a noun and a verb. The noun, Digg, refers to the web site, and the verb refers to the action of approving of content on the website. Neither usage requires a "the" proceeding it to clearly identify what it is. I think a precedent should be set that gives "the" a little more credit in trademarks.
Besides, I find it a little sad that judges have to be told what "the" means. - gummih, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Oh my, this is so weak! Have you checked out http://dig.com
- etandrib, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Except they aren't similar, don't compete in the same market, and are a decade apart. They are really stretching on this one. I hope the judge gets a good laugh and it brightens his day. : )
- skibumnh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11From the Opposition Filing Document, pg 4, #12:
"12. Applicant's Mark DIGG is identical or nearly identical to the Opposer's Mark THE DIG. The word "the" included in the opposer's mark is one of the most commonly used English words and its presence or absence is of little note to consumers. The Applicant's the DIGG Mark is confusingly similar in sound, meaning, and appearance to the Opposer's THE DIG mark. The Applicant's registration and use of the DIGG Mark would likely create confusion, mistake, or deception in the minds of prospective purchasers as to the origin or source of the Opposer's Goods associated with THE DIG Mark." - kp3469, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Lucasarts shaking down Digg? for what, exactly? that'd be like bill gates asking you for a couple million dollars.
just lawyers being lawyers. - sketchydave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I have no idea why ohgeetee is getting dugg down.
This kind of thing happens all the time, the only reason it made it to the front page is because it happened to be LucasFilm who is contesting it. Most major companies have either a firm or someone in house who looks for this kind of thing. It will never go through, digg is in zero danger, its just a paper trail to show they are actively using and defending their trademark. If they don't use it, they lose it.
If ONLY the patent office worked the same way. -
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