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Current fiasco with MAME (info and links)!!

Postby Class316 on Thu Feb 24, 2005 7:09 pm

To sum up (if I grasped it correctly), a company called ultracade that makes arcade cabinets is trying to trademark the mame name AND logo because he’s upset that people can by VASTLY superior cabinets on ebay :shock:

See these posts:

http://www.retrogames.com/cgi-bin/wwwth ... #Post81472

http://www.mame.net/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/ ... Post168563

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sh ... art=1&vc=1

http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regs ... y=76627578

http://www.ultracade.com/openoffer.pdf
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Postby were on Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:34 pm

own mame?..thats like mcdonalds tryin to own burger king cause they make burgers and stole their idea
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Postby Silverhaze on Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:36 pm

Isnt it more like the company that makes McDOnald's burger boxes trying to buy Burgerking or something like that?!

I didnt read the posts I have to admit.

I prefer to be spoonfed a liquidised version :oD
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Postby Class316 on Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:26 pm

MAME Trademark Update

I know a bunch of folks have been itching to know what's going on with the whole MAME trademark issue. Well, with the help of several prominent friends, we consulted a trademark attorney and decided to see if David Foley was up to his word.

Last week, Nicola's application began showing up in the USPTO database. Once that happened, I contacted Mr. Foley and asked him to abandon his claim to the trademark, which you can see he did.

So, what does this all mean? First, it means that the MAME trademark is in the hands of the people who really ought to own it.

Second, it means you can all end your hate mail campaigns against Ultracade and David Foley. Comments here which attack either will be deleted and users will be banned. There's really no sense in yelling and screaming; let's just all be adults about the matter (I realize that it's hard for some in this crowd, but please try).

Third, however, it means that some responsibility comes along with owning the trademark. In order to use the trademark, we are going to have to set up some rules under which it can be used. This is likely going to come in the form of, simply, "You must request explicit permission to use the MAME trademark."

Of course, permission will be given to many legitimate uses (still have to ask, though!) But there is indeed a growing commercial sector that is abusing the MAME name to make claims that aren't true without violating the law ("Play 1000s of arcade games!" -- yeah right, show me your license for that), and quite frankly, many of the MAME team members are as against that as Mr. Foley is.

We'll be announcing more details shortly, but the most likely end result is going to be: if you want to use the MAME name, you've got to get rid of your illegal ROM links, your information on how to buy/download illegal ROMs, and your claims that anything you sell will let you play 100s or 1000s of games (unless you've legitimately licensed them).


http://www.aarongiles.com/index.html

http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regs ... est+Status

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Postby were on Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:59 pm

hmmm...people makin money off mame..saying its there own and producing them to gain profit from it..downright nasty and illegal


cripes, now it will eb much more harder to get mame(like it is now) roms
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Postby Class316 on Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:33 pm

were wrote:hmmm...people makin money off mame..saying its there own and producing them to gain profit from it..downright nasty and illegal


cripes, now it will eb much more harder to get mame(like it is now) roms


And playing roms you don't have the original board of is not illegal?
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Postby were on Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:18 pm

well.... 8)
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