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ANDORRA, Spain, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

The robot game has more than 200,000 users

The Japanese Trademark Office has rejected the arguments filed by Japanese

giant Imagineer on 21 January 2022 against the registration of Andorran Kevin

Comadran's Medabots trademark.

Imagineer sought the cancellation of this trademark on the grounds that it

could create confusion with its trademark Medarot, which it changed

internationally to Medabots. In the pleadings, Imagineer sought cancellation of

Comadran's mark on the grounds that the marks are similar and that it was

acquired by Comadran in bad faith.

However, each of the points raised in the opposition brief was ultimately

rejected by the court. The Japanese Trademark Office's decision finds that

Imagineer's mark cannot be said to be widely known to consumers, in Japan or

abroad. Furthermore, it rejects that confusion or bad faith has been shown.

Currently, the Medabots game, created by Comadran Studios, in which consumers

can battle each other with robots assembled from scratch, continues to grow

daily and has more than 200,000 users. It is a fully strategic game in which,

in addition to having to complete daily missions, players can compete in

different leagues.

In 2017 Kevin Comadran started to design a video game about robot battles and,

when he was thinking about the name of the trademark and the possibilities of

registration, he discovered that the name Medabots was available because it had

been abandoned by its owner, so he decided to register it as a trademark for

his game.

It was not until a few years later that Imagineer remembered the trademark

(which once belonged to another company and for which this company was a

publisher) and wanted to register it, trying to do so in several countries and

opposing the trademarks registered by Comadran. Now the Japanese Office

considers that Comadran is right.

SOURCE: Medabots