Call of Duty Warzone Faces a Trademark Lawsuit from Activision Publishing
Activision Publishing last week filed a lawsuit looking to put an end to a trademark dispute over the word “Warzone,” as reported by PC Gamer.
The origins of the dispute go back to last June, when Activision filed for US trademarks on both the term “Warzone” as well as “Call of Duty Warzone” as they apply to video games and entertainment products.
Washington-based Warzone.com, which has run a browser-based strategy game called Warzone since 2017 and ported it to mobile platforms, opposed those trademark applications in November. Warzone.com is claiming Activision’s trademarks are confusingly similar to its own, and if they are allowed to go through, they would hinder its own attempts to register trademarks around Warzone, which were made in October.
