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Commodore Branded Kickstarter Gets Hit by IP Troll

25 点作者 erickhill将近 3 年前

5 条评论

NonNefarious将近 3 年前
This &quot;article&quot; sucks. There are huge holes in the story. For example, it says:<p>&quot;Barry Altman is ringing a tiny bell but you can&#x27;t quite put your finger on it, he was the founder and CEO of Commodore USA from 2010 until his death in late 2012. He had founded Commodore USA after successfully acquiring the exclusive trademark rights to the Commodore name.&quot;<p>And then it quotes this Donohue saying, &quot;After his death and the fall of CommodoreUSA I made some enquiries and managed to acquire [his] website, molds and some stock&quot;<p>Nowhere in there does he claim to have acquired the trademark. Nor does the article address the obvious question: WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?<p>Trash.
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davelondon将近 3 年前
I think &quot;IP Troll&quot; is the wrong phrase. This seems like a totally normal trademark dispute, and there&#x27;s nowhere near enough information given in the article to know who is in the right. If it went to court I&#x27;m sure it would be a very straightforward case...
bitwize将近 3 年前
Both sides in this dispute are wannabe brand necromancers who claim to own a name and a logo, but have no idea what to do with them from a standpoint of what that name meant to consumers back in the day. To be fair I don&#x27;t care if this guy wins or loses his IP dispute. If I buy a &quot;new Commodore 64&quot; I don&#x27;t want it to be just a bog-standard PC in a retro case.<p>THEC64 and the Mega65 took different, better approaches to marketing Commodore nostalgia, without access to the brand name. I get that THEC64 is just VICE in a fancy case. But both models offer a selection of C64 games in a convenient form factor with a convenient interface, like other retro mini consoles, and the option to run additional software (unlike other retro mini consoles that haven&#x27;t been hacked&#x2F;reflashed!). And the full-size THEC64 offers a genuine-layout C64 keyboard, making using it <i>as</i> a C64 convenient and relatively accurate.<p>The Mega65 is just pure facerock and I want one so badly.
anon987927将近 3 年前
I stared at this logo daily for a large bit of my childhood, and this is the first time I&#x27;ve heard it called the &quot;Chicken Head.&quot; Mind blown.
fxtentacle将近 3 年前
super clickbait. &quot;IP Troll&quot;? They used the registered trademark of another company who is also selling retro PCs.<p>Imagine if I called my new phone series &quot;Apple&quot;.
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