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EA and Ubisoft butting heads over ‘Ghost’ trademark
Ubisoft and EA are currently having a bit of a legal squabble over a trademark to the word ‘Ghost’. EA applied to trademark the word last year for its Ghost Games studio, which works on Need for Speed. However, Ubisoft isn’t too fond of this as the publisher believes it conflicts with its own trademark for Ghost Recon, which it has been using since 2001.
EA filed for the Ghost trademark in March last year and it was first opposed by Ubisoft back in August. However, legal action was finally filed on the 29th of January this year, with Ubisoft’s lawyers arguing that the Ghost Recon trademark has been in use since 2001, long before EA started using the word in relation to Ghost Games and before EA’s own trademark was filed.
