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. _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
