Copyright filings for a video game called Victoria in 2020

[mailzanadloge]

I was walking around Trademarkia today and found the following:

Paradox doesn't own a copyright to anything called Victoria (https://www.trademarkia.com/company-paradox-interactive-ab-3528960-page-1-2).
A filing was made by a company called Groth Invest AB for a video game called Victoria in May 2020 (https://trademark.trademarkia.com/victoria-79287277.html). They also listed an educational component.
Groth Invest AB is a Stockholm-based company that among its services lists helping other companies with their IP.

Does this imply things are afoot with the Victoria IP over in Stockholm sometime soon(tm)?

 

[aaron778]

*heavy Anarcho-Liberal breathing*

 

[KongenfraNord]

Good find! I think you're on to something

 

[Mr. G]

I hope so!

 

[Deliberus]

"downloadable and recordable application game software for mobile phones."
You've gotta be kidding me

 

[mailzanadloge]

"downloadable and recordable application game software for mobile phones."
You've gotta be kidding me

You're only reading the last interpretation of the filing class allows. It relates to games on all platforms basically.

 

[Deliberus]

You're only reading the last interpretation of the filing class allows. It relates to games on all platforms basically.

I suspect this is moreso being able to publish their game on mobile devices in the far future should mobile phones evolve drastically without having to mess around in legal terms...

 

[Nordmore]

it may also be tradmaked protected to block other developed to use the same name, but i hope its a new game

 

[Kazanov]

"downloadable and recordable application game software for mobile phones."
You've gotta be kidding me

Its the promised Victorias secret dating sim.

Spoiler: Wiz was working on it afterall xd

 

[Grzegorz Grzybek]

"downloadable and recordable application game software for mobile phones."
You've gotta be kidding me

"Do You Guys Not Have Phones?"®

 

[Amtep]

Phones are for calling people, not playing games

 

[Pellaken]

call me crazy, but having some kind of "link" between my phone and computer; playing on the computer, and being able to interact on my phone, would be neat. I wouldn't even have to pause the game to go to the washroom, I could just grab my phone!

 

[Nicolas-]

Unfortunately doesn't mean a lot. It could be that they decided to trademark victoria I and II retroactively considering the increase in popularity. There was a risk someone could make a game called Victoria or such..

 

[Grzegorz Grzybek]

call me crazy, but having some kind of "link" between my phone and computer; playing on the computer, and being able to interact on my phone, would be neat. I wouldn't even have to pause the game to go to the washroom, I could just grab my phone!

Didn't you try https://store.steampowered.com/steamlink/about/ ?
I remember checking some games that were quite awkward to operate, but they worked

 

[Kovax]

This could also be some company trying to claim-jump and try to blackmail Paradox to buy the rights from them for "too much money", or else have to spend "too much money+" on lawyers' fees to fight it. Hopefully, Groth is being contracted by Paradox to handle it, not some con artists trying to scam money from them.

The company I work for had someone grab the .com name of the company, and then offered to sell it to us for an inflated sum which a big company might have shrugged off as trivial, but would have put us out of business.

 

[Vohen]

This could also be some company trying to claim-jump and try to blackmail Paradox to buy the rights from them for "too much money", or else have to spend "too much money+" on lawyers' fees to fight it. Hopefully, Groth is being contracted by Paradox to handle it, not some con artists trying to scam money from them.

The company I work for had someone grab the .com name of the company, and then offered to sell it to us for an inflated sum which a big company might have shrugged off as trivial, but would have put us out of business.

I mean, if this

Groth Invest AB is a Stockholm-based company that among its services lists helping other companies with their IP.

Is the case, I don't think we have much to worry about.
Would a company stay in business if they were engaging in "IP ransom" like that?
I'd think not, though I have no experience on the subject.
The fact they are based in Stockholm should even be more indicative of them working with PDX, I believe.

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

The Groth Invest AB might even be somehow linked to the product manager Gustav Groth working for Paradox.
On the otherhand there are quiet a number of Groths all over the world, so can be a coincidence.

 

[Pellaken]

Didn't you try https://store.steampowered.com/steamlink/about/ ?
I remember checking some games that were quite awkward to operate, but they worked

I'll look in to this, thanks!

 

[mailzanadloge]

Would a company stay in business if they were engaging in "IP ransom" like that?

Copyright/patent trolls ARE a major problem, though I don't believe this is one.

 

[Vohen]

Copyright/patent trolls ARE a major problem, though I don't believe this is one.

I've heard of that, and more recently people do this with URL domains as well, but I question if a company which is in the business of "helping other companies with their IP" would engage in such practices.