Lawyers Are On the Way to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory as You Read This

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Trademark Trolls

unknown_entity on January 22, 2014 at 2:02 PM

Quick, buy "Candy" Land board games before they are thrown in a pile and incinerated before the eyes of millions of children.

unknown_entity on January 22, 2014 at 2:05 PM

Yeah, I'll bet Hasbro (the makers of Candy Land), Mrs. See's Candies, the confectioners who make Candy Corn and Candy Apples, and all the porn actresses who go by the first name of Candy, are all collectively shaking in their boots right about now...

COMTE on January 22, 2014 at 2:06 PM

The fabulous Candye Kane should be safe thanks to some prescient creative spelling.

rob! on January 22, 2014 at 2:20 PM

Crap. Candye, long a friend of the LGBT community, is still fighting cancer. If you know her work, send a little love.

rob! on January 22, 2014 at 2:27 PM

@3 I'd love to see Hasbro, a $6.8 billion company, counter-sue the shit out of these wankers.

Keenan C on January 22, 2014 at 2:27 PM

I'm going to make a game called CandyFace. I just need some investors and people who know how to make games.

MacCrocodile on January 22, 2014 at 2:32 PM

Who can take the joy out of taking a rainbow and sprinkling it with dew...?

ɥsɐןɯouǝʌ on January 22, 2014 at 7:34 PM

What kind of bald headed bastardy is this?

Daniel Francis on January 22, 2014 at 9:41 PM

Um....as a woman named Candice who is occassionally called Candy...thay's fucked up.

on January 22, 2014 at 11:47 PM

They are also trying to trademark "Saga" and going after other (smaller) game companies already - even though the trademark hasn't been approved yet:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/…

Pithy Name on January 23, 2014 at 7:58 AM

@2: Don't worry, there's always Kosherland. Where I work, we actually got a bunch of those for our Hanukkah display. I had a good laugh out of that. (And no, people didn't really buy them until they got marked down 90% in December.)

venomlash on January 23, 2014 at 9:47 AM