Sunday, January 19, 2014

'Fighters of Capcom' Trademark Abandoned


November 2012, Capcom filed a trademark for the title Fighters of Capcom. The name could have belonged to a new crossover brawler. Or, at the least, the localized title for Japanese mobile card battling game Capcom All Stars. Today though, both possibilities have been dashed.

On January 6th, 2014, the Fighters of Capcom trademark was officially abandoned. The US Patent and Trademark Office has classified the title as "Abandoned because no Statement of Use or Extension Request timely filed after Notice of Allowance was issued."

Of course, Capcom could revive the trademark somewhere down the line, but the fact that they let it expire suggests whatever game it belonged to is no longer on the radar. Matter of fact, Capcom are no strangers to abandoning trademarks for unreleased titles. The localized trademark for EX Troopers was dropped in January 2013, and Mega Man Universe -- the ill-fated D.I.Y Mega Man game -- expired in June 2011.

It's difficult to say if this is a major loss. After all, we never actually knew what Fighters of Capcom was. Well... that's that, I suppose. Back to dreaming of "Capcom vs. Capcom."

13 comments:

  1. Capcom... what has happened to you?

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    1. Short answer: They made a lot of stupid decisions, so now they pretty much have no money left to make games for anything other than mobile.

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  2. Wow, an abandoned concept by Capcom? I'm astounded! 0_0

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  3. Color me surprised.
    I'm sorry, did I say "surprised"?
    I meant, "YAWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN. I'm soooooooooooo shocked."

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  4. Capcom abandoning a game? NO WAY, I AM SHOCKED. Now if they announced the cancellation of some merchandise, that's when I'd legit be shocked.

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    1. Does this count?

      http://www.rockman-corner.com/2013/09/rockman-ultrabooks-just-got-cancelled.html

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    2. Yeah that actually did shock me.

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    3. Not sure if this counts, but back when Star Force/SSR was a thing, there was a line of figures based on the Tribe ONs in Star Force 2 that were supposed to be on sale, but were ultimately cancelled.

      Didn't stop sites like Toys N Joys from listing them and allowing people to purchase them, years after the cancellation.

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    4. Toys N Joys updates their listings like Wily updates his disguises...

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  5. most of it is because they dont want to
    1. put out a bad game. it would be bad forever.
    2. put out an unfinished game. players would not get full exp. of the game.
    3. its Capcom, they must be running out of ideas by now.

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    1. Those first 2 reasons never stopped Capcom before. Why would they stop them now?

      Reason 3 may potentially have some merit though.

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  6. Capcom: Milking and destroying IPs since 1983

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