We’ll never find out if any money was exchanged, but, if that happened, it looks like Falconer will have pulled off some trademark bullying for profit. I’ll be interested to see if Zenimax gets its trademark for “Redfall”, or uses it without a trademark. “While the specific terms of the agreement are confidential, the parties believe that resolution of the matter is mutually beneficial to both ZeniMax and and their respective fans.” and are pleased to announce that they have amicably resolved a pending trademark dispute related to the Redfall trademark,” reads a short statement. I say unfortunately because, as is common, the terms of the settlement have not been disclosed. Unfortunately, it looks like Zenimax has settled with Falconer. That hope and dream is not the basis for a trademark dispute, however. After all, the real concern by Falconer appears to be that he might some day want to license his books for a game.

This always had the smell of a money-grab and I had rather hoped that Zenimax would bother to fight this one out in court. The video game and literary markets are not the same and it strains the mind to imagine how the average consumer might somehow confuse an entry in the Elder Scrolls game series with a series of science fiction novels. Just call my attorneys back.”Īll of which is nonsense. “My lawyers made attempts to contact gaming company to work out a simple licensing deal for them to use my Redfall name,” tweeted Falconer. It’s not known exactly what game ZeniMax applied for the Redfall trademark for, but with another Elder Scrolls game in the works at ZeniMax-owned Bethesda, it’s possible that the company was planning to use Redfall in the name of that in-development game.Īccording to the author, his legal team attempted to resolve the issue before filing an official dispute, but was met with radio silence from ZeniMax at every turn.

Much of the speculation is that it will be for the next Elder Scrolls game. At issue is that Falconer has a sci-fi series of novels with the Redfall title and he is claiming that the public might be confused between his books and whatever game Zenimax is planning to publish with that trademark. I could have sworn I wrote about this when the this dispute started in February, but it appears not. Zenimax, parent company of Bethesda, was in a trademark dispute with book publisher on behalf of author Jay Falconer over Zenimax’s trademark application for the term “Redfall”. Wed, May 29th 2019 07:59pm - Timothy Geigner

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