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Video Game IP Trademark searching (Don't give me hope); may contain spoilers

ggx2ac

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One thing I like to do from time to time is to check on trademarks. There have been instances where a trademark filing has indicated a new game announcement in the future, two instances I can remember was when Capcom trademarked Ghosts n' Goblins before they announced the resurrection title and then there was the trademark of Hyenas from Sega which was found around a 1 to 1.5 years before the game became officially announced.

One of the websites I am using to look up internationally registered trademarks is: https://www3.wipo.int/madrid/monitor/en/#

Of interest to me is that Nintendo has been registering trademarks for games that they have been putting up on NSO and they have been doing that recently for GBA and GB games.

Here is what they have been trademarking recently:
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As you can see, Solar Striker for example is a Game Boy game which heavily implies that it will appear on the GB NSO.

What may have actually caught your eye is that The Binding Blade is listed, to make sure this wasn't a coincidence, I could not find a trademark for Panel de Pon which is a JP-only Super Famicom game from Nintendo/Intelligent Systems which came out the SNES NSO apps outside Japan.

Does this mean that Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade is going to be released on GBA NSO in the West for the first time?

Here's the link for the trademark of The Binding Blade: https://www3.wipo.int/madrid/monitor/en/showData.jsp?ID=ROM.1721160

I want this to be a main video game IP trademark thread so that I don't have to make new threads for every new trademark that appears.
 
This thread is looking promising.

Just to be clear, @ggx2ac you would like every trademark discussion to be centralized here, correct ? Even if the news broke out elsewhere.

If anyone wants to make a thread about a new trademark they can.

Most trademarks don't get much discussion and would be a waste of making a new thread hence the idea of just making a main trademark thread to fill up whatever is found.
 
I'm still waiting for Felyne Village. That has to be coming now after AC took off so much.
 
Next time on Metaphor
It's funny now that I know what the trademark for Metaphor from Sega was.

I saw the trademark Metaphor from Sega a week or two ago but the problem was, "Is it a game title?"

If I bothered to at least look closer then yes, I would have noticed the Class 9, and Class 41 given to it which is most used for trademarks of video games.

I would have then posted it here but I definitely wouldn't have thought this was the title for Project Re: Fantasy.

Source: https://www3.wipo.int/madrid/monitor/en/showData.jsp?ID=ROM.1730469
 
Maybe some mobile game like Champions of the Continent (Octopath Traveler), but I didn't think Diofield was successful enough to warrant one.
 
Bandai Namco has trademarked "PAC-MAN SUPERFAST" and "Shadow Labyrinth" in pretty much all major territories:
Shadow Labyrinth: https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/detail/US500000098145021
PAC-MAN SUPERFAST:https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/detail/US500000098153500

I didn't discover these myself, I saw them from Gematsu tweets:




Edit:
Capcom has trademarked MONSTER HUNTER Puzzles Felyne Isles

Source: https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/detail/EM500000018867808

Other titles with a similar name, Monster Hunter Felyne Puzzle, a PSP title from 2012. Source: https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Felyne_Puzzle
Apparently this game came out on mobile back on June 1st with literally no marketing or official acknowledgement from Capcom. It also didn't receive any coverage from gaming outlets - if you look up its name the only articles that come up are about the trademark... The game itself looks like an incredibly bad and generic Candy Crush clone/Match 3 game...

Also, I'm not sure where exactly this game is available, because I found one viral tweet about the game and a lot of the replies say it isn't available in their territory including Japan, Europe, US, Canada, Australia, etc. (I saw a single reply that claimed it's available in Brazil).

 
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