Hazelight Studios, makers of the collaborative game It Takes Two, faced a trademark dispute from game publisher Take-Two around the time the game was released. Hazelight can’t really say much, but they’ve given up on the brand.
Which Eurogamer wrote, who spoke to Hazlitt. The studio “cannot comment on outstanding issues” and “hopes this issue will be resolved soon.” In United States Patent and Trademark Office">USPTO It can be seen that the It Takes Two brand by Hazelight be marked stand up frankly quietSince March 30 this year. Take-Two signed last year Protest against the brand. A copyright expert told Eurogamer that Hazelight is expected to settle the game’s copyright and will no longer pursue the It Takes Two trademark.
According to Eurogamer research, Take-Two doesn’t just target Hazelight. In the past year, the company has filed several lawsuits against the brand and the company using similar terms for the Take-Two product and name. These include, for example, the Chinese brand Starrocks, the clothing brand Max Fayne, and several smaller companies with the “rockstar” name. Rockstar Games is one of Take-Two’s daughters.
According to Richard Hogg, a gaming industry attorney and copyright expert who spoke with Eurogamer, Take-Two is “very aggressive” in this area compared to similar companies. “Take-Two has filed for renewals in 25 trademark cases in the past three months. Most other game companies take 6 or 7 years to reach that number.”
Take-Two isn’t just about branding. The company regularly picks up mods for the offline game Grand Theft Auto DMCA request And it has two creators for the GTA reverse engineering project. Take it to court.
Well-known games from Take-Two are Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Borderlands, Bioshock, Civilization, LA Noire, Mafia, XCOM, The Outer Worlds, Max Payne dan Program Luar Angkasa Kerbal.
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