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Nintendo's latest Press Release:
"Game Boy® Trademark Initiative, January 6, 2004
Did you know that there are ways to actually misuse a Game Boy? We just did it in the last sentence. Our famous Game Boy® trademark is sometimes misused. When a trademark is repeatedly misused it risks becoming a generic word that does not indicate the source or quality of the product.
You are probably one of more than 160 million people who love their Game Boy video game systems. But no matter how you use it (Gameboy, GameBoy, game boy, gameboy), real portable fun is actually spelled:
Game Boy® system
Game Boy® Advance hardware
Game Boy® Advance SP hardware
(Game Boy® can be used as an adjective to modify many generic nouns like system, video game system, hardware, game, software, accessory and so on.)
Now for some plural fun:
When there's more than one Game Boy®, Game Boy® Advance or Game Boy® Advance SP system, trademarks should never be used in plural format.
Here are some examples.
Incorrect usage:
Game Boys
Game Boy Advance SPs
Correct usage:
Game Boy systems
Game Boy Advance SP hardware
Of course, our trademark Game Boy® should never be used to refer to a non-Nintendo video game system. Our competitors have to earn their own reputations. Please don't give them a free ride on ours."
So.. now you know.
"Game Boy® Trademark Initiative, January 6, 2004
Did you know that there are ways to actually misuse a Game Boy? We just did it in the last sentence. Our famous Game Boy® trademark is sometimes misused. When a trademark is repeatedly misused it risks becoming a generic word that does not indicate the source or quality of the product.
You are probably one of more than 160 million people who love their Game Boy video game systems. But no matter how you use it (Gameboy, GameBoy, game boy, gameboy), real portable fun is actually spelled:
Game Boy® system
Game Boy® Advance hardware
Game Boy® Advance SP hardware
(Game Boy® can be used as an adjective to modify many generic nouns like system, video game system, hardware, game, software, accessory and so on.)
Now for some plural fun:
When there's more than one Game Boy®, Game Boy® Advance or Game Boy® Advance SP system, trademarks should never be used in plural format.
Here are some examples.
Incorrect usage:
Game Boys
Game Boy Advance SPs
Correct usage:
Game Boy systems
Game Boy Advance SP hardware
Of course, our trademark Game Boy® should never be used to refer to a non-Nintendo video game system. Our competitors have to earn their own reputations. Please don't give them a free ride on ours."
So.. now you know.
Nintendo's latest Press Release:
"Game Boy® Trademark Initiative, January 6, 2004
Did you know that there are ways to actually misuse a Game Boy? We just did it in the last sentence. Our famous Game Boy® trademark is sometimes misused. When a trademark is repeatedly misused it risks becoming a generic word that does not indicate the source or quality of the product.
You are probably one of more than 160 million people who love their Game Boy video game systems. But no matter how you use it (Gameboy, GameBoy, game boy, gameboy), real portable fun is actually spelled:
Game Boy® system
Game Boy® Advance hardware
Game Boy® Advance SP hardware
(Game Boy® can be used as an adjective to modify many generic nouns like system, video game system, hardware, game, software, accessory and so on.)
Now for some plural fun:
When there's more than one Game Boy®, Game Boy® Advance or Game Boy® Advance SP system, trademarks should never be used in plural format.
Here are some examples.
Incorrect usage:
Game Boys
Game Boy Advance SPs
Correct usage:
Game Boy systems
Game Boy Advance SP hardware
Of course, our trademark Game Boy® should never be used to refer to a non-Nintendo video game system. Our competitors have to earn their own reputations. Please don't give them a free ride on ours."
So.. now you know.
"Game Boy® Trademark Initiative, January 6, 2004
Did you know that there are ways to actually misuse a Game Boy? We just did it in the last sentence. Our famous Game Boy® trademark is sometimes misused. When a trademark is repeatedly misused it risks becoming a generic word that does not indicate the source or quality of the product.
You are probably one of more than 160 million people who love their Game Boy video game systems. But no matter how you use it (Gameboy, GameBoy, game boy, gameboy), real portable fun is actually spelled:
Game Boy® system
Game Boy® Advance hardware
Game Boy® Advance SP hardware
(Game Boy® can be used as an adjective to modify many generic nouns like system, video game system, hardware, game, software, accessory and so on.)
Now for some plural fun:
When there's more than one Game Boy®, Game Boy® Advance or Game Boy® Advance SP system, trademarks should never be used in plural format.
Here are some examples.
Incorrect usage:
Game Boys
Game Boy Advance SPs
Correct usage:
Game Boy systems
Game Boy Advance SP hardware
Of course, our trademark Game Boy® should never be used to refer to a non-Nintendo video game system. Our competitors have to earn their own reputations. Please don't give them a free ride on ours."
So.. now you know.
How long did it take you to find all that out?! Anyway, it's useful info.
what do you mean "how long did it take to find that out?", its a quote from a nintendo press release(as stated at the start of the post), probably on the official website.
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That's just like them originally saying that we must type GameCube as NINTENDO GAMECUBE.
AND NO, MY SHIFT/CAPS LOCK KEYS AREN'T STUCK!
:D
I think it is fair to say that the only misuse of trademarks is when old people come into shops and call every console a Playstation.
AND NO, MY SHIFT/CAPS LOCK KEYS AREN'T STUCK!
:D
I think it is fair to say that the only misuse of trademarks is when old people come into shops and call every console a Playstation.
Edgy wrote:
> I think it is fair to say that the only misuse of trademarks is when
> old people come into shops and call every console a Playstation.
That's so annoying!! I've heard people say: "Gamecube.. thats a Playstation for kids, innit?"
Makes you want to rip throats out.
> I think it is fair to say that the only misuse of trademarks is when
> old people come into shops and call every console a Playstation.
That's so annoying!! I've heard people say: "Gamecube.. thats a Playstation for kids, innit?"
Makes you want to rip throats out.
Yeah! Sure does!