Ryan S. Dancey wrote:

> You may be confused with patent law; where any evidence of "prior art" de facto 
>kills the ability to patent something.  Trademark law (as I mentioned before) is 
>concerned with consumers.  So the case you'd have to make in opposition to the d20 
>System registration is that there are a whole bunch of consumers out there who would 
>become confused if WotC was allowed to register the term "d20 System" and preclude 
>its use by other RPG publishers.  I think you'll have a hard time making that 
>argument.
> 

Several posters on Usenet apparently believed WOTC was trying to prevent 
any other game company from using a game system which involved 20 sided 
dice.

These people also probably believe someone in Nigeria will send them 40 
millions dollars, but so it goes.

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