{"id":511,"date":"2012-05-15T01:39:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T01:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=511"},"modified":"2018-07-05T17:49:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T17:49:29","slug":"novalogic-claims-rights-to-delta-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/novalogic-claims-rights-to-delta-force\/","title":{"rendered":"NovaLogic Claims Delta Force Trademark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_512\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-512\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DF-RetailWP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"293\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NovaLogic to Activision&#8230; &#8220;We were here first.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MAY 15, 2012\u00a0<strong>\u25cf<\/strong> NovaLogic is suing Activision Inc. for trademark infringement claiming the &#8220;Delta Force&#8221; names was wrongfully used in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The trademark on Delta Force has been held by NovaLogic since 1998. Neither the U.S. Army nor the U.S. government uses the name. According to the complaint, &#8220;The U.S. Army officially denies that any unit called Delta Force exists and does not claim ownership to either the Delta Force name or the logo.&#8221; NovaLogic claims Activision has ignored two cease and desist letters, and now seeks a court injunction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Show of hands: how many people actually thought NovaLogic was still a going concern? That&#8217;s because we haven&#8217;t heard much from this venerable publisher of combat sims in quite a while. Now it is up to a judge to decide whether Delta Force is such a common phrase in public usage that employing the name is fair use, at least until the obligatory settlement is eventually tendered.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 15, 2012\u00a0\u25cf NovaLogic is suing Activision Inc. for trademark infringement claiming the &#8220;Delta Force&#8221; names was wrongfully used in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The trademark on Delta Force has been held by NovaLogic since 1998. Neither the U.S. Army nor the U.S. government uses the name. According to the complaint, &#8220;The U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78,66],"tags":[161,415],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16419,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/16419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}