From: "Brad Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The trademark 'D20 System' appears frequently, but in our common
discussion
> we are using 'd20' to refer to a great deal of this material.
I don't like trademarks that start with lower case letters. If you start a
sentence with them, you have to either decide to look strange "d20 system
games are great." or change the mark by capitalization "D20 system games are
great."
In any case, the marks are normally registered in all uppercase "D20 SYSTEM"
and varients are included as an alias. Therefore, it probably doesn't
matter whether you capitalize the "d" or not.
> WotC isn't going to do it for them. If industry adopts the term
'd20'(sans
> Logo) as this unofficial term and used it to brand Interactive Game
software
> or rules which describe Character Creation or Applying the effects of
> Experience to a Character, would WotC see that as a threat, and move to
> block it? What about similar marks such as "d20-xml?"
I can't comment. Not won't; can't. It is impossible for me to project
today what an IP attorney at WotC or Hasbro will find to be a confusingly
similar mark at some unknown future point in time.
Ryan
