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Per [1] my understanding is that they took down the game worldwide, but that the action will only affect Chinese-speaking markets since the English name was not
by perennate 7y ago
Per [1] my understanding is that they took down the game worldwide, but that the action will only affect Chinese-speaking markets since the English name was not trademarked in China.
Perhaps if they had trademarked the Chinese name in the US (assuming this is possible) they could fight this. Or maybe they would have to fight it in every sovereign country, e.g. Taiwan (ROC), Malaysia, etc.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/bs6n3l/apple_removed_my_game_from_the_app_store_because/eokkp52/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/bs6n3l/apple_remov...
- jaycroft 7y agoApple took down the Clicker Heroes app in all languages, English (for which the company does hold a trademark) included, worldwide.
- perennate 7y agoBut why don't they remove the Chinese localization like that person is saying and get it re-activated? Is that not possible? This is a post from the developer which doesn't make sense if it's impossible: > We can re-name it in China, yeah. With a ton of effort changing all of the artwork we created with the old name. But renaming "Clicker Heroes" (which we already trademarked) in the U.S. and EU would be senseless
- jaycroft 7y agoI would imagine that they're working on it. But, as devil's advocate, I might ask instead "why didn't Apple remove the offending app only from the region in which it was deemed to be infringing?"