Take-Two slammed by game devs after \u2018R\u2019 logo results in \u201cabsurd\u201d Rockstar lawsuit Rockstar\/RallyHereRockstar\u2019s owner Take-Two Interactive has hit another \u2018R\u2019 logo company with a trademark lawsuit, and the developers behind it aren\u2019t very happy about the legal battle. Stewart Chisam, CEO of Hi-Rez Studios (Smite 2 developer) and RallyHere, was the first to call out Take-Two and its trademark lawyers for discovering what he called an \u201cinfinite money glitch\u201d and arguing with the studio about RallyHere\u2019s \u2018R\u2019 logo. RallyHere is a cross-platform multiplayer backend as a service provider for game studios. The image in the post below demonstrates how its \u2018R\u2019 logo looks. Evidently, Take-Two believes RallyHere\u2019s emblem is too similar to Rockstar\u2019s logo, resulting in a trademark dispute. Chisam called out Take-Two on X by explaining how he feels they \u201charass anyone in the games industry that tries to use an R in their logo, no matter how far away from the Rockstar logo, and bank easy money that could have gone to making games instead.\u201d He continued, \u201cNo creature in our star system is ever going to confuse the logo below with Rockstar\u2019s iconic \u2018R with Star\u2019 logo.\u201d Jessica Flowers, general counsel for RallyHere and Hi-Rez Studios, replied to Chisam\u2019s post. \u201cApparently nobody in gaming can use the letter R except for them, even when [the] likelihood of confusion is zero. It\u2019s been an awesome use of our time and resources,\u201d Flowers said sarcastically. Responses from Chisam\u2019s original post were just as confused and annoyed by this dispute. \u201cAbsurd. The logos do not share ANY resemblance. I\u2019ll be honest I didn\u2019t even know that was an R on the RallyHere logo,\u201d one reply said. There were even some commenters who were grateful for Chisam speaking up about this issue: \u201cI love these kinds of tweets. Gives a [peek] into the side of the games company not very well known or thought about.\u201d Unfortunately, this hasn\u2019t been the only dispute Take-Two has initiated with a company over an \u2018R\u2019 logo. Back in January, Grand Theft Auto\u2019s publisher filed a dispute with Remedy, the developer behind Alan Wake and Control. It didn\u2019t stop at just \u2018R\u2019 logos, as Take-Two also filed a lawsuit against It Takes Two developer Hazelight Studios in 2021 for the game name\u2019s similarity to the company name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Take-Two slammed by game devs after \u2018R\u2019 logo results in \u201cabsurd\u201d Rockstar lawsuit Rockstar\/RallyHereRockstar\u2019s owner Take-Two Interactive has hit another \u2018R\u2019 logo company with a trademark lawsuit, and the developers behind it aren\u2019t very happy about the legal battle. Stewart Chisam, CEO of Hi-Rez Studios (Smite 2 developer) and RallyHere, was the first to call […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}