Hi guys,
I was looking into possibilities of registering the name of a potential game as a trademark (brand). If I read it correctly (WIPO, Madrid agreement), it will costs some 5 figures amount for world wide (and a few hundreds for just a country or region). Which makes me wonder, do smaller studios and/or indies actually do this?
If not, I guess one can have a scenario where an indie team comes up with a great game name, and some big studio simply pays for the trademark of that name and grabs it (and the indie is screwed).
On forums I also read that people often just register a .com with the game's name, so they have at least something. With which most teams/people get away it (because it's not often a game's name is reused).
Just curious on thoughts and/or how you would approach this.