Take-Two Has Filed A Trademark Dispute Over Remedy’s Awesome New Logo
Rockstar Games, the juggernaut behind the Grand Theft Auto franchise, is fiercely protective of its IP and image, and so is its parent company, Take-Two Interactive.
So much so, in fact, that the latter has filed a trademark dispute over Remedy Entertainment’s new logo, revealed back in April 2023. As reported by RespawnFirst (thanks, VGC), Take-Two believes that the new logo bears too much of a resemblance to Rockstar’s iconic ‘R’ logo, stating “there exists a likelihood of confusion on the part of the public”.
Remedy applied the trademark in May 2023 with Take-Two submitting an opposition in September 2023. Our opinion? They don’t look alike at all, but there you go.
In a blog post detailing the company’s logo change, Remedy stated “The bullet in the letter R in the old logo represented the era of Max Payne, but the Remedy of now is much bigger than a single game; we have a whole portfolio of games, new and old”.
What’s particularly amusing about all of this is that Remedy and Rockstar are currently collaborating on remakes of Max Payne 1 and 2. There’s nothing like a good ol’ trademark dispute to keep relationships healthy, huh?