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Rowen Enthusiast

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I was noticing... that the trademarks to subspace have been abandoned.

 

http://www.uspto.gov/

 

Search for "Subspace"

 

Says that it has been abandoned, and that VIE filed for the abandonment.

Thus said, the name continuum is quite useless vs subspace. The only use I see is labeling the client software.

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Word Mark SUBSPACE

Goods and Services (CANCELLED) IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: entertainment services, namely, providing on-line interactive computer games to remote users. FIRST USE: 19960512. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19960512

Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING

Design Search Code

Serial Number 75272694

Filing Date April 10, 1997

Current Filing Basis 1A

Original Filing Basis 1A

Published for Opposition November 18, 1997

Registration Number 2135988

Registration Date February 10, 1998

Owner (REGISTRANT) Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 18061 Fitch Avenue Irvine CALIFORNIA 92614

Type of Mark SERVICE MARK

Register PRINCIPAL

Live/Dead Indicator DEAD

Cancellation Date November 13, 2004

rootbear75 Grand Master

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new client release: Subspace 2

 

and freak... that link doesnt work

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MikeTheNose Proficient

MikeTheNose

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Continuum is a client, subspace is a game. Don't need to confuse people.

- MikeTheNose
- Subspace Central Network BanG Administrator

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"I have never wavered in my commitments to this zone and I am certainly not doing so now."  You just did.

doc flabby Mentor

★ doc flabby

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The trademark subspace expired 2 years ago. This is old new tho blum.gif im sure i saw a thread about this a long time ago.

 

All it means is you can call/sell a game using the name "SubSpace" now. However. the copyright of the images and ships, code, everything from VIE infact still remains.

Rediscover online gaming. Get Subspace.

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Ophie Collaborator

Ophie

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The trademark subspace expired 2 years ago. This is old new tho blum.gif im sure i saw a thread about this a long time ago.

Don't try to act all "cool" and say that you saw a similiar thread to this a long time ago, and then trying to say it's "old news" ... thats not cool. if you did see it, prove it.

My name's ophie and I can't follow rules.
MikeTheNose Proficient

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Ophie, as a council rep I can say that this is old news blum.gif

- MikeTheNose
- Subspace Central Network BanG Administrator

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"I have never wavered in my commitments to this zone and I am certainly not doing so now."  You just did.

Ophie Collaborator

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Ophie, as a council rep I can say that this is old news blum.gif

IF you didnt know, SSCouncil is a joke. Now that's old news.

My name's ophie and I can't follow rules.
rootbear75 Grand Master

rootbear75

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Ophie, as a council rep I can say that this is old news blum.gif

IF you didnt know, SSCouncil is a joke. Now that's old news.

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rootbear75> here is me nude <spoiler tag: Pervert... how many of you actually clicked this?>

Samapico> I actually clicked the spoiler before reading what it was

Corey> I clicked it cause i read what sama said first.

darkreb0rn> I clicked it because I wanted to see you naked...

rootbear75> O.o __________________________________

2:IdleRPG> Mr Snuffleluphagus walked face-first into a tree. This terrible calamity has slowed them 0 days, 00:01:22 from level 18.

2:rootbear75> for fucks sake...

Rowen Enthusiast

★ Rowen

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I just believe, as my years in industrial organizational psychology has told me about branding and marketing, that two names are simply bad. We're not establishing a brand as VIE once did, but a continuation of a community. Also, the name continuum is over used, over trademarked, and soppy in a pool of brand confusion. Subspace, the community, has been very active in one form or another and as a brand a pretty strong one until the continuum client took it's hit.

 

Google : 27,000,000 results Continuum

Google : 6,000,000 results Subspace

- - Most of the front results are from this community

 

I believe that it's not a matter of trademark anymore, as it could be reasonably argued that the trademark has not only been deactivated but unpatrolled and diluted to general use of the game today.

 

As for MikeTheNose: What's up my homie!

Continuum is a client, subspace is a game, but there is definitely brand confusion between the two. Well, maybe not for you and I, but of course for all those new people that hit subspacedownloads, and the casual player. Priitk chose wise at the time to adopt a different name but his unwise choice was that of Continuum.

 

This was meant to be educational, informative, and well not starting of a flame war.

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May those in the halls slumber, while we prepare an unheard opening experience; when it is ready, we will enchant the atmosphere with one word: Rock.

Dav Grand Master

★ Dav

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indeed

 

I think continuum was a good choice of name at the time, subspace and continuum are words that to the more nerdy among us are well related. I can see that calling it subspace would have been, well suicide...

 

As far as the future goes i think it would be nice to call it all subspace again. This site is subspace central, we have subspace downloads and many more as subspace.

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doc flabby Mentor

★ doc flabby

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The trademark subspace expired 2 years ago. This is old new tho blum.gif im sure i saw a thread about this a long time ago.

Don't try to act all "cool" and say that you saw a similiar thread to this a long time ago, and then trying to say it's "old news" ... thats not cool. if you did see it, prove it.

 

http://forums.sscentral.com/index.php?show...st&p=146949

 

this isnt the original thread that got deleted by spyed :(

Rediscover online gaming. Get Subspace.

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Rowen Enthusiast

★ Rowen

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Yes. But the original post touched lightly on the issue.

SSForum.net (http://www.subspace.co) - September 01, 2002 - Rowen (SSDownloads.Com), PoLiX (SSCentral.Com), and Cyberise (Subspace.Net)<br />

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May those in the halls slumber, while we prepare an unheard opening experience; when it is ready, we will enchant the atmosphere with one word: Rock.

candygirl Mentor

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keep it the way it is "the name continuum is fine.

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Dav Grand Master

★ Dav

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Well continuum and subspace being used together confuses newbies

 

For those of us that know something about this game its a non issue, we know the client is continuum and the game is subspace.

 

Problem comes in when somione called it subspace with a newbie abround leading to confusion. On top of that all the !@#$%^&*es are "subspace" like SS central and subspace downloads which is more confusing to newbies.

 

Its also nice to take the game back to its roots bnow we have the chance.

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Gravitron Experienced

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SubSpace is dead. Long live SubSpace.

 

Now you have continuum, for worse.

"The true measure of a man is how he treat someone who can do him absolutely no good."

- Samuel Johnson

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Because geezer captains such as myself believe in sinking with our ship.

"The true measure of a man is how he treat someone who can do him absolutely no good."

- Samuel Johnson

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Synook Community Regular

Synook

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Google : 27,000,000 results Continuum

Google : 6,000,000 results Subspace

- - Most of the front results are from this community

 

I just have to say - Continuum is a more widly used word than Subspace. After all, continuum means something most people know, while Subspace is a rather obscure word.

 

Also, I believe that the full name of the game will remain to be 'Subspace Continuum'...

Also, what is the name of the server again?

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