Back to collectionAn Old Event Badge and the Name Now in Dispute
The narrator was organizing the studio's evidence of commercial use for its trademark case. While tidying a bookshelf, he found his badge from his first exhibition in 2023. The badge did not prove the case, but it reminded the narrator to put scattered materials in chronological order so counsel could see how the studio had continued using the name.
A creative chronicle combining project history with imagined scenes. Story events are not verification of network activity.
The narrator was organizing the studio's evidence of commercial use for its trademark case. Most of the material before him consisted of version announcements, release records, and customer support questions. He worried that sorting it only by document type would hide how players had first encountered the name.
While tidying a bookshelf, he found his badge from his first exhibition in 2023. The handwritten schedule on its back had not faded. He stood the badge beside his monitor and remembered that back then he had to explain how to play the game; now he had to explain to a court who owned its name. He added a note beside the evidence list: check how early event materials connect by date to later records of commercial use.
The badge did not prove the case, but it reminded the narrator to put scattered materials in chronological order so counsel could see how the studio had continued using the name. He planned to find the surviving records from that exhibition and check them one by one. Whether any belonged in a formal filing would depend on the records themselves.