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[Bullet Club]

SKATE Trademark - Serial Number 87800368 :: Justia Trademarks

Computer game software; Video game software; Downloadable computer game software via a global computer network and wireless devices. Entertainment services, namely, providing an on-line computer game; Provision of information relating to electronic computer games provided via the Internet

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Update:

2019-06-24 REGISTERED AND RENEWED (FIRST RENEWAL - 10 YRS)

 

[kraspkibble]

aw man. RIP Skate

someone needs to make a good skateboarding game again. wasn't Tony Hawk working on something new with someone? what ever came of that?

i tried a Skateboarding game recently but it was still in early access and very broken.

 

[Bullet Club]

wasn't Tony Hawk working on something new with someone? what ever came of that?

I think it was a mobile game.

 

[kraspkibble]

I think it was a mobile game.

oh. well that sucks

 

[waylo]

Check out Session. It controls nothing like Skate, but it really feels like a natural evolution. Early access but they've got a really great foundation to build on.

 

[Gavin Stevens]

Nice one EA. With the utter shambles of the handling Tony Hawks games has in recent years you could have come in and ruled this stage. But as always, you had to be all EA about it.

I still believe there’s a way back for ToNy Hawk. A new game, with decent physics, built around the whole idea of the first/second game, with a killer Soundtrack and the ability to skate in a park with other skaters there...? Come on, it’s not that hard...

 

[BlackOlivesMatter]

I'll take a Skate 2 remaster for PS5 please.

 

[Shifty]

So what are the legal ramifications of this? Is the SKATE trademark up for grabs now, or is it more complex than that?

 

[AV]

Pretend I don't know much about IP retention legality. Can someone try and snatch Skate up?

 

[Terce]

It's just the trademark, it's not like they could snatch up assets or the engine or anything like that. It would be like if Microsoft lost their trademark you could use the name and logo but you wouldn't get their software

 

[Nymphae]

A legit Tony Hawk game could be so fucking amazing today.

 

[Tipton32]

EA probably would screw it up like they did with SSX 2012. No thanks.

 

[Ban Puncher]

#skate4

 

[Afro Republican]

It was basically reportedly confirmed long ago through Ex-employees that EA made Skate specifically to kill Tony Hawk and then abandoned the series once it no longer generated a large amount of money.

I have no reason to assume this is false since that's basically exactly what happened. Skate dethroned Hawk and all other skateboarding games, and EA cut back and coasted on it until they decided it didn't bring in much money and said bye. Activision had a chance to bring Tony Hawk back with THPS5 to take advantage of skates death, and screwed it up.

To be fair Skate boarding games aren't really something the market is into now. Tony Hawks prime has also passed and his name can't move game sales anymore.

 

[bigdawg69]

bigdawg dislikes this. Session on pc isn't that bad, but it's no skate.

 

[nani17]

Those hoping to play Skate 4 at some point in their lives should probably move on. At least for now.

Electronic Arts has abandoned its trademark for Skate, leaving little hope for a Skate 4.
According to a United States Patent and Trademark Office (UPTO) listing, the trademark was re-upped in February 16, 2018. However, as of August 1, 2019, the company had abandoned it. A trademark can be considered abandoned when the applicant refuses to respond to correspondence from the USPTO.

If you look over the trademark page on legal resource site Justia (thanks, GamesRadar), you can see the application history and the various attempts made to contact EA over the filing.

Despite hopes for a fourth installment, EA said in a Q3 2017 financial call to investors Skate 4 was not in development.

Rumors around E3 2018 stated EA might announce the game at EA Play, but the rumors obviously didn’t pan out

Source

 

[bronk]

 

[diffusionx]

Skate 2 was one of my favorite games last gen but I don’t want 2019 EA anywhere near the franchise to be honest.

 

[drganon]

Sucks for the people into that series. Personally, I'm way more bummed thps is dead.

 

[Ryu Kaiba]

Skate 2 was one of my favorite games last gen but I don’t want 2019 EA anywhere near the franchise to be honest.

This, It would just be full of lootboxes anyway.

 

[iconmaster]

2019-06-24 REGISTERED AND RENEWED (FIRST RENEWAL - 10 YRS)

 

[oagboghi2]

Nice one EA. With the utter shambles of the handling Tony Hawks games has in recent years you could have come in and ruled this stage. But as always, you had to be all EA about it.

I still believe there’s a way back for ToNy Hawk. A new game, with decent physics, built around the whole idea of the first/second game, with a killer Soundtrack and the ability to skate in a park with other skaters there...? Come on, it’s not that hard...

That was literally the pitch for tony hawk 5.

It’s over. It’s dead

 

[Gavin Stevens]

That was literally the pitch for tony hawk 5.

It’s over. It’s dead

I own Tony Hawk 5. It was... Awful. On every level. It was about as cheap an attempt as you can get. There was nothing even close to good in it, at all...

 

[diffusionx]

I own Tony Hawk 5. It was... Awful. On every level. It was about as cheap an attempt as you can get. There was nothing even close to good in it, at all...

Yes, that's the point. They pitched it as that game. Reality was something else. "Be careful what you wish for"

The companies, the people, the technologies, the markets, they're all totally different from what they were when these games emerged. You're much more likely to get a disaster than a solid product.

 

[Gavin Stevens]

Yeah, it’s awful... I get part of the problem is that the world has moved on. A game as “simple” as Tony Hawks wouldn't survive now, not without massive changes and additions.