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Tidalwavex wrote:Geminii wrote:It's just a flipping laptop. ASUS could go back to their marketing division and ask for fifty new names. Considering some of the nonsense syllables which have been assigned to laptop brands over the years, who'd notice.
My bet is that ASUS did it deliberately so Hasbro would be forced to sue them and ASUS could then piggyback from the publicity associated with the Transformers movies. It's a way to get their name and mention of their product on every geek site on the internet. Once they've achieved maximum awareness, my bet is that they'll change the name - and they'll then get a second round of free advertising in their target markets as the news about the change propogates through the same channels.
My 2 cents on this matter:
(1)IMHO,It's plainly obvious this ASUS named their tablet/laptop after a transformers toy line on purpose. Asus is clearly in the wrong here. as asus is the equivelant of a internet troll. who starts trouble un-provoked.gets in your face & upsets you.
Are you on Hasbro’s payroll ?
Anyways, you swear everyone knows “Transformers Prime” the same way they know the “Michael Bay Trilogy”. It’s like saying everyone who knows Star Wars knows about the cartoon series too. It’s just not that big among non-fans. There is no link between the name of this laptop and the cartoon show. It is a figment of Hasbro’s imagination.
And court is considered B***h S**t in my hood.
(2)I agree with "Gemini",ASUS could have clearly chosen billions of other names to call their product.
(3)IMHO,Some who are upset with hasbro over the Asus law suit. are only upset because of kotoys.com.
(4)I find it ironic that Hasbro goes after a smaller fish in the pond called ASUS. But hasbro has never gone after the bigger fish in the pond called USA Bandai,for using the "Transforming/Transforms" words of their Power rangers toys packaging for over 16+ years. Bandai could have used billions of words to describe the change process of one mode to the next. bandai clearly used the "Transforming/transforms" words to bypass the loop holes in the Patent/trademark rules, upset & troll hasbro.
(5)Both Asus & USA Bandai are clealy using loop holes in the patent/trade marks laws to troll & upset hasbro. Hasbro can't trademark nor patent the words transforming/transforms because it's a adjective used to describe a movement of action. Hasbro doesn't have a legal lawsuit case with Asus because Hasbro can only patent/trade mark stuff in catergories they use like toys.
patent's/trade marks expire if you don't use them in certain category. Even though Asus is trolling hasbro,asus has the right to use the TF Prime name because their in the computer category & hasbro is in the toy category. hasbro never bothered to patent/trade mark anything called Transformers Prime in the computer category,asus did. so therefore asus has full rights to the use of the Transformers Prime name.
(6)Like I said above,This Hasbro lawsuit against Asus makes no sense. because hasbro is getting free advertisemt from asus with the transforming prime words on their tablet/lap top.
because everytime people buy or see the TF Prime words on the asus tablet.they'll think Transformers toys & head down the toy aisle to buy their kids/self Transformers toys. I guess hasbro doesn't like free advertisement.
Rated X wrote:Are you on Hasbro’s payroll ?
Anyways, you swear everyone knows “Transformers Prime” the same way they know the “Michael Bay Trilogy”. It’s like saying everyone who knows Star Wars knows about the cartoon series too. It’s just not that big among non-fans. There is no link between the name of this laptop and the cartoon show. It is a figment of Hasbro’s imagination.
And court is considered B***h S**t in my hood.
Burn wrote:So after a bit of reading, it seems that ASUS' Transformer Prime will actually be powered by NVidia's quad-core chip named "Kal-El".
Perhaps Hasbro should talk to DC/Disney about a joint lawsuit?
Burn wrote:So after a bit of reading, it seems that ASUS' Transformer Prime will actually be powered by NVidia's quad-core chip named "Kal-El".
Perhaps Hasbro should talk to DC/Disney about a joint lawsuit?
Jesterhead wrote:Heck, they are probably already paying Microsoft royalty fees to use Android 3.2/4.0 software...
Burn wrote:Jesterhead wrote:Heck, they are probably already paying Microsoft royalty fees to use Android 3.2/4.0 software...
Why would they be paying Microsoft?
Kibble wrote:I wonder if the Transformer Prime laptop line is the same as Hasbro's where the super limited initial run is good, but the ones they release to the masses are crappy?
There is nothing gimmicky about the Eee Pad Transformer or the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, nor can it be said that there is any similarity in the use or function between Hasbro and Asus’s products.
Kibble wrote:I wonder if the Transformer Prime laptop line is the same as Hasbro's where the super limited initial run is good, but the ones they release to the masses are crappy?
paul053 wrote:Totally unnecessary. Hasbro, save your money on lawsuit and give us better toys.
kirbenvost wrote:Kibble wrote:I wonder if the Transformer Prime laptop line is the same as Hasbro's where the super limited initial run is good, but the ones they release to the masses are crappy?
lol... I was actually kind of rooting for Hasbro on this one. Maybe not right to ban sales, but to force a name change seems reasonable to me. "Transformer Prime" is just too blatantly similar. But whatever, makes no difference to us at the end of the day.
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