medabots they came Spain As one of many Japanese animated series attempting to repeat global success in 1999 pokemon: it didn’t happen that way Digimon did not achieve success A piece anyone narutohowever, it managed to air 52 episodes before disappearing. Seventeen years later, a Spaniard named Kevin Comadran remembered that they had made a video game for mobile phones and registered the trademark in his name after realizing that this game was now abandoned. European Union.
Although the attempt to keep the Medabots name fails, Comadran Studios will not have to return the money it has made in recent years from the hundreds of thousands of downloads the video game has achieved on Android and iPhone stores.
And this, as EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA of the Prensa Ibérica group found out for the first time, Alicante Provincial CourtMedabots, where the EU Trademark Court is located in our country, decided to reach an agreement with Imagineer, the Japanese studio responsible for the worldwide production of video games. It is not just a company that continues to sell old books with this name in its virtual store. Nintendo’sbut they plan to reintroduce new ones to the European market.
He asked for 1 percent of the income
Carlos Morán, partner at industrial law firm Elzaburu law firm, explains: “The decision recognizes the copyright of Imagineer Co. Ltd. to the original video game Medabots, including its name. This video game has never stopped being marketed in the European Union. ” and intellectual property. “The decision was appealed” Supreme Courtbut that doesn’t stop Imagineer from continuing to sell the video game or release new games as it has done so far.
In this decision, the State Court, just as EU Trademark CourtHE Kevin ComadranHe is the Spanish creator of the video game and currently resides in Andorra. acted “in bad faith” As for wanting to claim a brand that is listed as abandoned in Europe but is still relevant in other regions.
In fact, Comadran’s intention, given its initial complaint, was to prevent Imagineer from creating new video games under the name ‘Medabots’ and to prevent it from claiming 1% of all revenue from them within the European Union due to the trademark. It was registered in his name. The Japanese company not only avoided this, but also managed to reverse the dispute and have the trademark registered by Comadran canceled.
You can continue to make money with them
Comadran project that sees the light apple warehouse And Google Play More than 100,000 downloads on devices so far at the beginning of 2022 Android.
Although the non-final decision of the Provincial Court of Alicante found that the marketing of the video game should be stopped and its download in stores should be made available Google And manzanaThe beta version is still available for download on both.
The name used to describe the game in some places is still Medabots, but Comadran Studios has started using that term under the terms of the decision available to this newspaper. my robots.
But as Imagineer’s lawyer explained, justice will only protect the Medabots name, not their characters, because they have not been sufficiently proven to be identical to the original video games.
This is the same thing that can happen with other video games, for example, on Google Play or the App Store, which replace series such as Pokémon or Digimon, which use a visual appearance and very similar, if not identical, characters. completely different app name.