FX-Unit Yuki: The Henshin Engine for TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine

[Gredler]

Afaik it's the henshin more than engine, henshin is a generic word someone has rights to, and apparently also has a anime style girl mascot.

http://www.henshin.com

[Lost Monkey]

Afaik it's the henshin more than engine, henshin is a generic word someone has rights to, and apparently also has a anime style girl mascot.

http://www.henshin.com

Well that website almost has content.

[nodtveidt]

Yeah, that dude was being a dick about it, trying to sucker Saru into paying money to license the name. FFS, Saru Studio just started up and already someone's trying to be a f*cker. Saru already lost $600 on the trademark registration that was rejected thanks to this other dude submitting a class 9 registration ON THE SAME f*ckING DAY. This production was expensive enough, so instead of giving this greedy jackass four figures for the license, Saru changed the name. So this dude can pound sand until he finds eggs to suck.

[Lost Monkey]

Just call it "Yuki Imagine of the PCE World" and be done with it.

[turboswimbz]

I believe it would actually be extremely difficult for him to win in an actual court . . .  I'd like to see him try to sue an anime production company, which his trademark could technically cover, it's quite broad. I doubt he would, but pick on the homebrew guys sure no problem.  That being said I assume you guys don't have both time and money for a legal battle. A shitty situation.  Well, hopefully I get to buy something soon. 

I say you just call it Hen-Chin and call it a parody. hahahaha.

If anyone is interested here is a copy of the general info in the trademark.

https://trademarks.justia.com/875/64/henshin-87564591.html

[Arkhan]

I'm confused, since the US trademark shows Henshin Engine as a live trademark.

[nodtveidt]

Saru still has time to contest it, that is why it shows up as live. However, this is costly to do and can take years... it's not worth the effort.

[Arkhan]

That's all pretty stupid.

Henshin and Henshin Engine are two different things.

Does the guy intend to go after anyone who puts the word Henshin at the start of a thing? 

[nodtveidt]

Yup. Remember when that one company did that for "Edge"?

[crazydean]

Yup. Remember when that one company did that for "Edge"?

Yup. And it worked for a while.

[turboswimbz]

Yup. Remember when that one company did that for "Edge"?

Yup. And it worked for a while.

yeah right up to the point when he threatened EA and it backfired and he ended up having to give up much of his trademarks and pay all his own legal fees to do so.  I guess they are still going strong with this as they still have licenses active, but I'm guessing a number of people just go with the rename it and don't deal with it route.   

[Arkhan]

lol, I wish you guys were more confrontational like me, because I am sure the fireworks would be entertaining.

I'd probably change the games name to "Not Henshin Engine Because HenshinGuy Is a Dick"

just to spite the guy

[nodtveidt]

I used to have a hell of a lot more fight in me but in recent years, I've been more of a "yeah whatevs" kind of dude when it comes to this stuff.

[seieienbu]

Well that sucks.  This reminds me of when Candy Crush sued the Banner Saga for having the gall to use the word "Saga" in their name.  It sounds to me like this guy has nothing to stand on though.  After all, how else does Dove soap and Dove chocolate exist in the same world?

[Black Tiger]

Whoever owned the rights to the game Myst went around suing anyone titling games with anything similar to the word. Sega caved when they threatened legal action over Mystaria: The Realms of Lore for Sega Saturn. After pulling it from shelves they re-released it as Blazing Heroes.