The trademark info from the USPTO.gov search engine, TESS (sorry, can't direct link as it's a database search engine), which I looked up when checking System Shock's info a week or so ago:
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance is (currently) an Interplay mark, registered Dec 24 2007 (!), with the old registration having lapsed in 2002. I'd presume this would be transferred to Atari soon.
Icewind Dale is published for opposition as of June 2008, by Atari. Presumably there won't be any opposition.
Baldur's Gate has two current registrations both for Bioware and both very recent (one of them was approved in May this year), as well as a dead WOTC one from 2004-5 and a dead IPLY one for BG2: TOB. This may make a BG game problematic, due to EA's ownership of Bioware and being a competing publisher to Atari.
It's all a bit odd because the manuals list all the TMs as being WOTC/Hasbro marks, which is what the standard licensing agreement would normally be. But then the standard agreement wouldn't have two companies (IPLY/Atari) both having licences at the same time so there was clearly something weird going on, perhaps like the old Pool of Radiance situation where they got sequel rights.
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance is (currently) an Interplay mark, registered Dec 24 2007 (!), with the old registration having lapsed in 2002. I'd presume this would be transferred to Atari soon.
Icewind Dale is published for opposition as of June 2008, by Atari. Presumably there won't be any opposition.
Baldur's Gate has two current registrations both for Bioware and both very recent (one of them was approved in May this year), as well as a dead WOTC one from 2004-5 and a dead IPLY one for BG2: TOB. This may make a BG game problematic, due to EA's ownership of Bioware and being a competing publisher to Atari.
It's all a bit odd because the manuals list all the TMs as being WOTC/Hasbro marks, which is what the standard licensing agreement would normally be. But then the standard agreement wouldn't have two companies (IPLY/Atari) both having licences at the same time so there was clearly something weird going on, perhaps like the old Pool of Radiance situation where they got sequel rights.
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