Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two, has filed trademark dispute against Remedy's new logo, which was unveiled to the public back in April of 2023.

Take-Two opened an opposition dispute for Remedy's new logo starting on September 12th, 2023. Even though the Remedy logo was unveiled on April of 2023, the logo itself didn't get filed as a trademark until May of 2023, almost a month later, and while the two logos from Rockstar and Remedy are quite different in design, the one thing that both logos share between is a stylized letter "R", though it still remains to be seen whether this could hold up when the dispute is properly reviewed.

This isn't Take-Two's first outing in a legal battle, as they have been quite active in the legal front, filing for a trademark claim against the popular and Game of the Year winner "It Takes Two" due to the similarities between the game's name and the company's, and some time ago they also sued the developers behind the GTA reverse engineering projects, known formely as "re3" and "reVC".

The dispute currently remains in an "opposition" state, with the period for the opposition ebeing xtended as of August 8th, 2023 up to September of 2023, and as of today there's still no public ruling from the case.

Trademark Dispute #1
Trademark Dispute #2

 

[KiiWii]

Ridiculous

 

[Deleted member 194275]

wait... can they trademark a letter?

It is not even a stylized letter, it is just the "R" letter.

 

[BigOnYa]

That is being a little too sue happy there! Surprised they have not sued the Rockstar energy drink also.

 

[ShadowOne333]

wait... can they trademark a letter?

It is not even a stylized letter, it is just the "R" letter.

They're not even coloured in the same way.
They have to lose this dispute, it'd be absolutely idiotic if they end up winning it.

 

[AxlSt00pid]

Take-Two being as shitty, braindead, and money hungry as always; I'm not impressed in the slightest

Hope Remedy wins this, and besides, you can't trademark a single letter right?

It's like that fiasco with Monster Energy trying to trademark the word Monster and fighting with everyone that used that word

Take-Two more like We'll-Sue

 

[ertre]

Sounds like they need more budget for GTA6.

 

[CoolMe]

Nkw they want trademark a frigging "letter"? The font on Remedy's logo doesn't look like Rockstar's in any way, so that's not it, they just don't want any other company (other than Rockstar) to make/use logos with the letter "R"??

 

[ShadowOne333]

Take-Two more like We'll-Sue

More like "Take-Sue"

 

[Ryab]

wait... can they trademark a letter?

It is not even a stylized letter, it is just the "R" letter.

This is TakeTwo we are talking about remember. They will go after anything really.

 

[Axido]

I get some bad Apple vibes from this.

Speaking of which, Rockstar should watch out so they don't get sued for copying Apples strategy.

 

[ZeroFX]

Two crappy companies, i hope they eat themselves.

 

[SDA]

The guys at Take-Two must be blind. These two logos are CLEARLY different from each other.

 

[Justinde75]

I hope take two falls flat on its face with this one. The R is not even a complete R like in the rockstar logo...

 

[Dark_Ansem]

Losing the plot

 

[KingVamp]

More like "Take-Sue"

Sue-Two?

 

[codezer0]

That is being a little too sue happy there! Surprised they have not sued the Rockstar energy drink also.

Oh, they... Did.

But I have to agree, this suit is major league stupid. Again, what do you expect from the Houser brothers? They fired EVERYONE that objects to their board meetings at brothels, they automatically sue ex employees and their fanboys are why Saint's row as a franchise, is now dead going forward and gta 5 was allowed to be the only game for over ten years.

 

[Ampersound]

Next they will be going for ABC nursery rhymes, because the letter 'R' is obviously theirs.

 

[SaberLilly]

Sue-Two?

Sue-You

anyway, this whole thing is ridiculous, clearly this will not hold up in court, anything they try throwing at remedy just will not work.

 

[Marc_LFD]

What? It's just the letter R.

It's like Elon Musk's "X" logo, if you check out the Xbox One X logo it's fairly similar.

Elon Musk, Rockstar, and whomever think they can "own" a letter can go fuck themselves.

By the way, Xbox One X looks great as gaming console, just sucks it requires an online connection (to connect a M$ account) rather than keep it offline.