The Internet recently has been full of stories about trade mark action being taken the Games Workshop, a British company well-known for creating the “Warhammer” and “Warhammer 40k” series of table-top and computer games. Specifically, it has been seeking to protect its claimed trade mark rights in the name “Space Marine”, an iconic character in the Warhammer 40K universe, against the author of a Kindle ebook called “Spot the Space Marine”. The Internet, in the main part, was scathing.The EFF, for example, called Games Workshop a “trademark bully”. Continue reading Games Workshop and the Space Marine trademark spat