https://www.warzone.com/Map/29651-dril

TL;DR: By early October, we'll have a real legal confrontation and a much better idea of who's winning (if the case doesn't get settled out-of-court before then).

Document update: Activision has filed their reply to Warzone.com's response to Activision's motion to dismiss the counterclaim.
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sBLKdxnNBIbfHULDUf-xEy2iUZvh_ACG/view?usp=sharing
Gist: Activision doubles down on the Rogers test, arguing (off of the First Amendment) that, since Call of Duty: Warzone has above-zero artistic relevance and is not explicitly misleading, the court must dismiss Warzone.com's counterclaim as a matter of law.

Next event: On October 1, 2021, at 1:30 PM Pacific Time, the California Central District Court will have a hearing on this Motion
Significance: There's two cases here: Activision suing Warzone.com (to get the "warzone" trademark and to block any claims of trademark infringement by Warzone.com) and Warzone.com suing Activision (over alleged trademark infringement by Call of Duty: Warzone). If the motion to dismiss passes, Activision v. Warzone.com continues but Warzone.com v. Activision ends. The court would effectively be ruling that Call of Duty: Warzone does not, as a matter of law, infringe on the alleged common law "warzone" word mark owned by Warzone.com.

I recommend skimming it. It has some fun-to-read excerpts and Activision's lawyers have only slightly toned down their level of spiciness. If you are interested in further discussion, hop on to the #activision-vs-wz channel on the Discord.

Thx for the update. Hope it goes well

NGL saw this coming as soon as COD Warzone became popular.

Looks like they have bigger problems and might be interested in settling smaller suits
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22686183/activision-blizzard-chief-legal-officer-leaves

these are what legal departments are for, one person leaves -->a new one will join, but the cases will go on

the legal officer: "r'ight im gonna head out"

1. Today is hearing day (on Activision's motion to dismiss the countersuit; if they win, the court decides Activision isn't infringing on Warzone's trademark). I don't know if they're still doing Zoom court, but if they are, here's the details in case anyone wants to attend for educational value (from http://www.cacd.uscourts.gov/honorable-fernando-l-aenlle-rocha):

Zoom Webinar Information

Link: https://cacd-uscourts.zoomgov.com/j/1612021291?pwd=QktxSFZLMjRkWC9mcWVkZlpVT3RyZz09
Telephone: (669) 254-5252
Webinar ID: 161 202 1291
Passcode: 649641

Important Notice: Recording Is Strictly Prohibited

Recording, copying, photographing and rebroadcasting of court proceedings is prohibited by federal law. A violation of this prohibition may result in sanctions, including suspension of your license to practice before this court, referral to the state bar, denial of the right to appear by video or telephonically at future proceedings, criminal prosecution, contempt, denial of admission to future hearings, and any other sanctions deemed necessary by the court.

The hearing will be at 1:30 PM Pacific Time (8:30 PM UTC). See http://www.cacd.uscourts.gov/clerk-services/courtroom-technology/zoom-courtroom-proceedings for guidelines around Zoom court. Most importantly, do not disrupt and do not record

2. I found the thread from back in 2015 when the Warzone name change (scrapped until 2017) was first announced to the community. It's got some real gold!: https://www.warzone.com/Forum/72830-logo-design-contest





Edited 10/1/2021 08:50:01

i know ive saw the forum lol, had some great laughs and such from it at some points. It was very controversial too


Criminal motions are heard on Friday at 10:30 a.m.
Civil motions are heard on Friday at 1:30 p.m.


i assume it will be later on but the fact that there is a copyright claim over the word Warzone should be crinimal, its a word lol!

Edited 10/1/2021 10:14:07

wow, shyb with his crystall ball

Can anyone access and link this “warlight” domain and link it because I can’t find it by typing in warlight.com?

It was warlight.net. Warlight.com is owned by someone who, at least as of 2015, was not willing to part ways with it.

Warlight.net redirects here. The expectation that the domain would be "warlight.com" is one of the reasons cited in that old thread for why they wanted Warzone.com, because they wanted a .com domain.

Today's the day. May justice prevail. Good luck Activision 🙏

Ik but warlight.com does not direct anywhere so why wouldn’t the owner just sell it lol

I hope Activision pushes for the death penalty, Inshallah.

@UFO: The site ownership information is currently anonymized but in 2015 it was owned by Warilght Industries aka Lightspeed (https://lightspeed.ca/), the number 1 ISP in Western Canada. You can contact them and ask, maybe: https://lightspeed.ca/contact-us/

It is the company name of that ISP, still, so they might want to keep owning the domain name.

Cool I can see why they would own a domain with ‘light’ in it. Tho the war part is pretty sus.

edit: light sped is an internet company

Edited 10/1/2021 19:13:58

Update (courtesy of Fizzer on Discord): the hearing on the motion to dismiss did not occur on October 1st. It was postponed to December 10th.

Wow. Those son of a warzoners

booo call of duty