Unless I'm mistaken he is buying prizes with the money. For a Pokemon party I would assume prizes would be Pokemon merch. If this is the case, The Pokemon Company is making money off this party. But I don't see how this would hurt them, so why not let it go? No need for them to be such asses about it.
Level 5's not good as sustaining franchises and I doubt it'll see big success outside of Japan.
They filed a complaint:
if nintendo is the owner of the pokemon company then why would it not have control over and supersession in the things they do?
You seem to have no clue what your talking about this wasn't at his cafe. This was an event at another location.
According to the initial filing of the complaint:
21. On information and belief, Defendants are producing and will be presenting an event that they call the “5th Annual Unofficial Pokemon PAX Kickoff Party,” which is scheduled to take place on August 27, 2015 at 500EAST Social House in Seattle, Washington, starting at 8:00 p.m.
22. Defendants are promoting this event through a Facebook page they have created at https://www.facebook.com/events/1655205158055812/ . They also are promoting the event and have sold tickets to it (the event is now listed as sold out) through the following page at Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-annual-unofficial-pax-pokemon-kickoff-party-tickets-17842953755.
23. Defendants boast that the “5th Annual Unofficial Pokemon PAX Kickoff Party” will feature among other things, “Pokemon themed shots and drinks - Smash Bros. Tournament with cash prize - Dancing - Giveaways - Cosplay Contest and more,” and an “AMAZIN POKEMON MASHUP.”
24. Defendants have incorporated infringing copies of Pikachu and Snivy into their poster for the “5th Annual Unofficial Pokemon PAX Kickoff Party,” depicted below, and are publicly displaying that poster:
25. Defendants have also incorporated an infringing copy of Pikachu into a post on their Facebook page promoting the “5th Annual Unofficial Pokemon PAX Kickoff Party,” as shown below
well they did more than send a message, they asked/demanded 4K out of it
Maybe there's more to it than I know, but I'd expect that the owner could fire the CEO and hire new management. That's the stick that helps ensure the company is run in a manner that advances the owner's interests.
The damages are both ridiculous and unnecessary. They're not going to lose their trademarks over the use of the characters in advertising pokemon fan-events, but for the sake of argument, let's say they will.
A part of me hopes they back off before the campaign ends so fans don't end up paying their fucking lawyers but another one wants to see this go until the end so I can keep it as a reminder to not buy their fucking products ever again.
well they own enough that all pokemon property stay exclusive to nintendo. i mean hell pikachu is practically a nintendo mascot just mario, link & metroid are.
Loooooooooooooooool
Are they selling tickets for and serving Pokemon themed shots and drinks at Johnny's birthday party?
my point is that there's never been a major pokemon game that's been on any non-nintendo platform, iirc. pokken is in arcades but it's coming to wii u.
what? is metroid not one of the most iconic video game franchises of all time?
the tekken engine? if you mean arcade board then which one? tekken 7's arcade board is based on PC architecture but I doubt pokken is running on the same hardware that's going to port a game to Ps4.
The point of the suit is to protect their IP. It looks bad against the Internet poster such as yourself, but you guys are ultimately insignificant. Part of protecting IP is sueing companies that violate it. If you don't you will lose it.
