{"id":11784,"date":"2012-08-03T13:47:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T18:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11784"},"modified":"2012-08-03T13:47:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T18:47:23","slug":"a-trademark-you-didnt-know-you-were-violating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/03\/a-trademark-you-didnt-know-you-were-violating\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trademark You Didn&#8217;t Know You Were Violating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I just gathered and organized all of my Atari 2600 game manuals (at least, those I know of&#8211;there are probably a bunch floating around in stray boxes here and there), and I discovered something.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the day, <strong>Game Program<\/strong> was a trademark of Atari.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the manual for Defender, which says it is the Atari\u00ae Game Program\u2122.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/atari2.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Atari 2600 Defender manual cover\"><\/p>\n<p>Here is a catalog saying that there are 45 Game Program\u2122 cartridges.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/atari1.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Atari 2600 game cartridge catalog cover\"><\/p>\n<p>Ergo, <em>Game Program<\/em> is a registered trademark of whoever holds the Atari intellectual property these days.<\/p>\n<p>So watch yourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I just gathered and organized all of my Atari 2600 game manuals (at least, those I know of&#8211;there are probably a bunch floating around in stray boxes here and there), and I discovered something. Back in the day, Game Program was a trademark of Atari. Check it out. Here&#8217;s the manual for Defender, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11786,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11784\/revisions\/11786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}