The battle lines have been drawn. Blizzard is now officially doing something about Valve registering the word 'DOTA' as a registered Valve trademark. A NeoGaf thread seems to have shed some light on an appeal Blizzard put forth to the US Trademark & Patents office back in the end of 2011. It will take a while for the whole process of appeal to conclude. Blizzard stated that DoTA was "distributed, marketed, and promoted by Blizzard and its fans". Blizzard says that DoTA "has come to signify the product of years of time and energy expended by Blizzard and by fans of Warcraft III,” and that “Valve has no right to the registration it seeks." Interesting development. I'm not sure what this will mean for DOTA 2's development which is current in closed beta. Do you think Blizzard has a right of keeping the DOTA name under their wings?
Source: PCGamer
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