Trademarkzilla Strikes Again: Complains That Fingerzilla May Confuse People Into Thinking It's Godzilla
from the giving-it-the-finger dept
Toho, the company that holds the rights to “Godzilla” is somewhat notorious for enforcing its rights on others for daring to use the suffix “zilla.” It’s now targeting a two man mobile app development firm for its Fingerzilla game, with particular concerns about the imagery used to promote the game:
Filed Under: fingerzilla, godzilla, trademark
Companies: inert soap, toho
Comments on “Trademarkzilla Strikes Again: Complains That Fingerzilla May Confuse People Into Thinking It's Godzilla”
How's Mozilla holding up?
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There’s more but I hit the wrong key.
They’re concerned with the imagery? It seems like they’re more concerned with five letters, two of which are the same.
I find the imagery more disturbing than confusing. I can imagine hollering at my kids, “Don’t play with Fingerzilla! You don’t know where he’s been!”
Slow news day, Mike?
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Slow trolling day, AC?
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prick
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Why are the trolls on this blog on a first name basis with Mike Masnick?
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Actually, some of them prefer to call him “The Masnick.”
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Slow news day, Mike?
Not at all, actually. Why do you ask?
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Paytard.
Pathetic. Troll harder.
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Slow brain day?
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Hum…nope. After taking a spin on the LHC, I’ve concluded that time is still flowing as usual: it goes real fast when you are having fun, but slows to a crawl when you’re at work or waiting in line.
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Why don’t you Google “Cockzilla”? I haven’t, and don’t personally want to…but I know that it must exist.
?Godzilla? Isn?t Even The Right Name ...
… the original monster?s name was ?Gojira?.
I always thought.....
… that Godzilla was a sort of phonetic translation of a name of a Japanese monster from folklore (large dinosaur/reptilian beasty famous for eating cities). Can you have a trademark on that sort of thing? Or is this company getting all Disney?
Either way their trademark can’t be *that* strong anyway as I’d never have associated all the things I’ve ever seen called “Godzilla” (a fair few if I think about it) with a single company, never mind any of the myriad other “xxx-zilla” products.
I can tell Mike was just dying to write this article. The second he saw the word “finger”…
I chuckled, so it was worth it.
Davezilla
Back in 2002, a guy with a popular blog fought the monster and won.
Curiously, all references to the incident have been scrubbed from the site, but Google remembers all
Love that game.
Soon they will object to anyone having the term God in their name as well.
The big question
Will they give Toho the “finger”?