I don't give a whip about the trademark issue, but anything that gives this company major grief is a good thing and karmic payback for all the times they javajacked my iPhone to take me from a news site to the candy crush saga page in the App Store.
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Just curious if you could elaborate a little more.... I can't understand your post. The guy you quoted said that:
1) All apps eventually get cloned
2) The hype of the game candy crush will eventually die down
3) Temple run has many variations, that have not been taken down
4) Candy Crush is identical to Bejeweled, with candy substituted for jewels.
Which of those points do you think are hypocritical?
p.s. I agree with what i think your point is. But I read (maybe incorrectly) that his point was the same, just stated a little differently.
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They said something similar in Judge John Hodgman Episode 127: 12 Angry Birds in order to avoid buzz marketing.
Since in the US its completely legal to mention another company in advertising reference it should not matter if I make an app with candy in it but instead make a none game app named candy crush sucks than right? 
I'm saying Apple shouldn't play favorites in protecting certain companies. If they are going to enforce something, please protect the other developers as well. It seems only rich companies get attention.
Samsung isn't the only company that is copying off of Apple, many others are too. Although blatant copying is wrong, companies having a supreme power may hinder competition and future development. I try to stay away from patent and technological disputes.
I'm going to assume you're the CEO of King.com, because a normal person wouldn't write something so brain-dead. That being the case, Mr. CEO Person, let me tell you something: you flat-out lied when you claimed you were "not trying to control the worlds use" of words, given your response to The Banner Saga, which is a completely legit title and no relation to you in any way, nor would anyone ever assume so, particularly since it predated this whole nonsense.
It's OK to trademark "Candy Crush Saga". It is not OK to trademark "Candy" or "Saga", it's blindingly obvious that doing so is wrong, and I hope you get hit with massive legal fees when your trademarks are invalidated, which they inevitably will be. (See the Edge case.) Instead of dragging this out and behaving like colossal jerks, just do the right thing and desist now. Thank you.
--Eric
Nope, that's trademarked already....it's a candy bar that is almost never available anywhere, but still trademarked.
Usually I wouldn't agree with something like this that categorically labels an entire group of people, but it's true. I feel like I see the biggest morons playing this game. They sit there in absolute stuportheir beady eyes glued to the screenvolume cranked to the max. It's ridiculous.
You know what else you should hate? The websites that, once loaded, open the App Store to Candy Crush to try to get you to download it. Auto loading the App Store should be blocked by default in Safari. It's so fracking annoying.
This reminds me of the guy a few years ago who would sue every company that used the word "Edge" in their game. I remember some games were removed from the App Store back then. Things didn't go well for him once he battled EA for Mirror's Edge. That's probably the first and last time I'll ever root for EAespecially for their legal team. The App Store games were restored and everything was fine. King should study the history here. It won't end well for them. If I recall, I even think some developers were rallying by putting Edge in the name of their games. History repeats itself!
There is already a candy bar like that. See picture in above post.
Tastes actually pretty good, but too many calories.
We need a
Diet Candy Crush Saga
for American kids
In app purchases could be for Sorbitol points.
We still have them in the midwest. Even have them in our vending machines here at work. One of my all time favorites, glad it came back.
And we're glad you're here to police it for us. Keep up the good work. The Internet could use more like you.
It's not even a particularly original game, similar ones have existed for years, yet they think they deserve special protection for individual, common words? I could understand trademarking "Candy Crush" in addition to "Candy Crush Saga", but this is just preposterous, and I'm deeply ashamed that the UK has given them a trademark for something so obviously foolish.
Their attempt to pursue legal action over the word "saga" says everything that needs to be said about their well-meaning intentions over this.
Their attempt to pursue legal action over the word "saga" says everything that needs to be said about their well-meaning intentions over this.
Difference is brand strength. Apple has a lot of it so it's worth protecting
Meanwhile Candy Crush, Ville games, With Friends games, etc are being treated as brands when they're really fads in a commodity market