Futuremark tries to trademark 'PWNAGE' - bit-tech.net Forums

CardJoe · 3rd Mar 2008, 13:37

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/03...emark_pwnage/1

Futuremark Corporation has recently filed papers with the US trademark office for the word 'PWNAGE'. All signs point to its move into games development.

UncertainGod · 3rd Mar 2008, 14:00

/me waits for teh pwneror to sue.

The Infamous Mr D · 3rd Mar 2008, 14:01

Oh good heavens.

Arkanrais · 3rd Mar 2008, 14:13

epic fail in the making

Firehed · 3rd Mar 2008, 14:18

Does Futuremark even use it in any of their products (and does their line of product expand beyond benchmarking software)?

Dumber than Fark trying to trademark NSFW.

TreeDude · 3rd Mar 2008, 14:22

Well that came out of nowhere. Considering their benchmarking tools don't mean jack anymore, maybe they go bored?

Flibblebot · 3rd Mar 2008, 14:31

No chance of getting it through. Trademarks require that there is no significant prior art relating to the application. Since there is obviously masses of prior art (just look through any game forum, or even lolcats), this is doomed to failure before it even starts.

Strangely, futuremark should already know this, so I think this is probably just a publicity stunt to draw attention to the fact that they're writing a game. </cynic>

kosch · 3rd Mar 2008, 14:55

lol I think Futuremark is trying to drum up some free PR for its up coming game to remind everyone that they are still doing stuff.

johnmustrule · 3rd Mar 2008, 15:59

What's gonna happen, everyone's gonna boycott futuremark, taht's what! this reminds me of when apple wanted to tradmark the "I-anyhing stuff" I doub't such a commonly used word will be tradmarked or stay that way, considering WOOT just officialy made it into the english language, no kidding.

Dreaming · 3rd Mar 2008, 16:02

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Originally Posted by Flibblebot

No chance of getting it through. Trademarks require that there is no significant prior art relating to the application. Since there is obviously masses of prior art (just look through any game forum, or even lolcats), this is doomed to failure before it even starts.

Strangely, futuremark should already know this, so I think this is probably just a publicity stunt to draw attention to the fact that they're writing a game. </cynic>

Completely agree on both points.

mikeuk2004 · 3rd Mar 2008, 16:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flibblebot

No chance of getting it through. Trademarks require that there is no significant prior art relating to the application. Since there is obviously masses of prior art (just look through any game forum, or even lolcats), this is doomed to failure before it even starts.

Strangely, futuremark should already know this, so I think this is probably just a publicity stunt to draw attention to the fact that they're writing a game. </cynic>

Thats what I thought then reading Tim's article. No chance of a common word getting a trademark.

Mankz · 3rd Mar 2008, 17:11

I hope the get pwned.

noobs.

Mr T · 3rd Mar 2008, 18:29

Personally i hate the word and wish it would go away

pendragon · 3rd Mar 2008, 18:40

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Originally Posted by Mr T

Personally i hate the word and wish it would go away

what he said ^^^

in any event, this smacks of a P.R. stunt to me

proxess · 3rd Mar 2008, 20:21

*runs the latest 3d mark on pc*
HAHAHA j00 PC HAS BEEN PWND BY OUR 1337 PROGRAMZ0RZ!!!!111one11eleven1
*dies*

specofdust · 3rd Mar 2008, 20:24

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Originally Posted by Arkanrais

epic fail in the making

Agreed. This can only go badly for them.

Kipman725 · 3rd Mar 2008, 21:24

1337 can never be trademarked as it's a number. Thats why intell switched from 486 to pentium because they couldn't trademark a number so others produced 468's aswell. Some of them far faster than intells. I have a IBM "586" which could run at 140MHz and basicly raped all but the fastest pentium. Runing with high bus speeds made my system a tad unstable though.

metarinka · 3rd Mar 2008, 22:30

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Originally Posted by Kipman725

1337 can never be trademarked as it's a number. Thats why intell switched from 486 to pentium because they couldn't trademark a number so others produced 468's aswell. Some of them far faster than intells. I have a IBM "586" which could run at 140MHz and basicly raped all but the fastest pentium. Runing with high bus speeds made my system a tad unstable though.

I thought porsche successfully trademarked 911, or more importantly won a court case against another car company for the 911 moniker. Of course that was like 70 years ago?

at any rate this is pretty pointless, especially seeing how pure pwnage has been around for awhile, the real debate is whether it's pronounced Pone, or own

CardJoe · 3rd Mar 2008, 23:08

When I first start at bit-tech I heard it pronouned poon-age. That surprised me a lot. Up north a pooner is someone who sniffs bicycle seats for sexual pleasure. It took a bit of getting used to hearing that.

UncertainGod · 3rd Mar 2008, 23:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by CardJoe

When I first start at bit-tech I heard it pronouned poon-age. That surprised me a lot. Up north a pooner is someone who sniffs bicycle seats for sexual pleasure. It took a bit of getting used to hearing that.

That took me as well.

Been down this end of the country for a year, love the people, hate the soft dialect.

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3rd Mar 2008, 14:22	#6
TreeDude Multimodder Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 238	Well that came out of nowhere. Considering their benchmarking tools don't mean jack anymore, maybe they go bored?

3rd Mar 2008, 14:55	#8
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Kipman725 When did I get a custom title!?! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: UK Posts: 1,753	1337 can never be trademarked as it's a number. Thats why intell switched from 486 to pentium because they couldn't trademark a number so others produced 468's aswell. Some of them far faster than intells. I have a IBM "586" which could run at 140MHz and basicly raped all but the fastest pentium. Runing with high bus speeds made my system a tad unstable though. __________________ Sn45g game server mod My Electronics Site Hardware: 3400+ Sempr0n, 1GB RAM, 1.28TB local storage, x1950pro,Razer Viper,M$ comfort curve 2000,L70S + 17", Fujitsu 17" CRT Audio: HD-650's, PE congress amp, Sound Blaster AWE64, Soundblaster 24bit

3rd Mar 2008, 23:08	#19
CardJoe Player Character bit-tech Staff Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 7,940	When I first start at bit-tech I heard it pronouned poon-age. That surprised me a lot. Up north a pooner is someone who sniffs bicycle seats for sexual pleasure. It took a bit of getting used to hearing that. __________________ this is joe's non-bit-tech blog