Aha, but _they are_. GDW is dead, but Twilight: 2000 (and Merc: 2000) material is being released in a set of books. This trademark is _still_ in active commerce.
Look at www.farfuture.net. The licenses are still in active use. -Erwos On 2002.02.21 19:05 Alec A. Burkhardt wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, David Zakar wrote: > > > Indeed, Twilight: 2000 was definitely using a system they called > > "the D20 system". I happen to have the document which introduced > > that to Twilight: 2k and Merc: 2k lying right here beside me. > > There are numerous references to "the D20 system". Whether or > > not the lower-case vs. capital-case d matters or not is a legal > > point, but I can say that when I heard d20 system prior to > > D&D 3E, I always thought of GDW's system. > > Even Ryan mentioned this in his earlier message. Trademarks aren't > eternal. Once the mark isn't being actively used in commerce it dies. > If GDW were still actively publishing Twilight 2000 and refering to it > as > "the D20 system" they'd be in a position to oppose the granting of the > 'd20 system' trademark to WotC. > > alec > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ogf-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l > > _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
