Bigred
08-06-2013, 02:10 PM
Not in the way they wanted... Read #4
http://www.cracked.com/article_20559_the-6-most-ridiculous-things-people-claimed-to-legally-own.html
a small excerpt:
But in 1987 -- more than half a century after the sci-fi world had combined the chocolate of "space" with the peanut butter of "marines" -- Games Workshop published a science fiction strategy game called Warhammer 40,000. One of the character classes in it was called "space marine," which Games Workshop quickly trademarked. From that moment forward, anyone else publishing a sci-fi tabletop game had to fill it with space seamen instead. Or something.
http://www.cracked.com/article_20559_the-6-most-ridiculous-things-people-claimed-to-legally-own.html
a small excerpt:
But in 1987 -- more than half a century after the sci-fi world had combined the chocolate of "space" with the peanut butter of "marines" -- Games Workshop published a science fiction strategy game called Warhammer 40,000. One of the character classes in it was called "space marine," which Games Workshop quickly trademarked. From that moment forward, anyone else publishing a sci-fi tabletop game had to fill it with space seamen instead. Or something.