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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 8316877" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Jayson Elliot <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/gygax-magazine-update-3-electric-boogaloo.332022/" target="_blank">registered the TSR trademark back in 2011</a> and used it to launch Gygax Magazine along with Ernie and Luke Gygax. The two Gygax's <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/updated-again-gary-gygaxs-widow-tsr-settle-trademark-dispute.663449/" target="_blank">left the company a few years later</a> after Gary Gygax's (co-founder of TSR (1) back in the 1970s) widow, Gail Gygax, forced the closure of Gygax Magazine. Then, earlier this year, <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/tsr-is-back-again.680779/" target="_blank">TSR (3) swooped in on the TSR trademark</a>, after Jayson Elliot accidentally let it lapse, as TSR (2) confirms:</p><p></p><p>[callout]We have owned the TSR trademark since 2011. Last year, we missed a filing date, and another company registered it, though we are still using it in commerce. While we could win a lawsuit, we frankly don't have the money to litigate. So, we're licensing it back from them.</p><p></p><p>As a result, there are two companies now using the name TSR. You can tell when it's us because we're the only ones using the new logo.</p><p></p><p>They're opening a museum in Lake Geneva at the old TSR house, and we wish them success with it, it's important to celebrate the legacy that Gary Gygax created.[/callout]</p><p></p><p>Ernie Gygax, formerly of TSR (1) under Gary Gygax, then working with Jayson Elliot as part of TSR (2), is one of the founders of of TSR (3), and <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/ernie-gygax-on-new-tsr-wotc-beefs-trademarks-licensees-5e-more.680877/" target="_blank">confirmed in his (now infamous) interview</a> --</p><p></p><p>[callout]The other TSR is a licensee because [Jayson Elliot] let it lapse. But he had absolutely ... love for the game and the products. There was no reason to say 'oh you've screwed up, oh it's all ours, ha ha ha ha!' Instead, Justin [LaNasa] came to him and said ... we love that you're doing <em>Top Secret </em>things, we have a much broader goal for the whole thing. But there's no reason for you to stop or even have any troubles. Justin said, I'll take care of the paperwork, you just give me $10 a year, and you put out all this love for old school gaming that you can. And we appreciate that you were there to try and pick up things, and you produced Gygax Magazine, for in its time that you're also working on a game that you love to play ... because<em> Top Secret</em> was Jayson's love, as a young man.[/callout]</p><p></p><p>TSR (2), still run by Jayson Elliot, publishes <em>Top Secret, </em>and is not connected to TSR (3) other than now having to license it’s own name from them. TSR (3) has also <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/a-tsr-announces-a-star-frontiers-reboot.680858/" target="_blank">registered the trademark to <em>Star Frontiers</em></a>, a game owned by and still currently sold by D&D-owner WotC.</p><p></p><p>In other news <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/guess-what-other-trademark-has-recently-lapsed.680885/" target="_blank">the GYGAX trademark appears to have lapsed</a>.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=twitter]1408200339036131331[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]138775[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>UPDATE! TSR (2) has decided NOT to license its own name from TSR (3):</p><p></p><p>[callout]Update to our earlier tweet - we will NOT be licensing anything from the new company claiming rights to the TSR logos. We are not working with them in any fashion.[/callout]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 8316877, member: 1"] Jayson Elliot [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/gygax-magazine-update-3-electric-boogaloo.332022/']registered the TSR trademark back in 2011[/URL] and used it to launch Gygax Magazine along with Ernie and Luke Gygax. The two Gygax's [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/updated-again-gary-gygaxs-widow-tsr-settle-trademark-dispute.663449/']left the company a few years later[/URL] after Gary Gygax's (co-founder of TSR (1) back in the 1970s) widow, Gail Gygax, forced the closure of Gygax Magazine. Then, earlier this year, [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/tsr-is-back-again.680779/']TSR (3) swooped in on the TSR trademark[/URL], after Jayson Elliot accidentally let it lapse, as TSR (2) confirms: [callout]We have owned the TSR trademark since 2011. Last year, we missed a filing date, and another company registered it, though we are still using it in commerce. While we could win a lawsuit, we frankly don't have the money to litigate. So, we're licensing it back from them. As a result, there are two companies now using the name TSR. You can tell when it's us because we're the only ones using the new logo. They're opening a museum in Lake Geneva at the old TSR house, and we wish them success with it, it's important to celebrate the legacy that Gary Gygax created.[/callout] Ernie Gygax, formerly of TSR (1) under Gary Gygax, then working with Jayson Elliot as part of TSR (2), is one of the founders of of TSR (3), and [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/ernie-gygax-on-new-tsr-wotc-beefs-trademarks-licensees-5e-more.680877/']confirmed in his (now infamous) interview[/URL] -- [callout]The other TSR is a licensee because [Jayson Elliot] let it lapse. But he had absolutely ... love for the game and the products. There was no reason to say 'oh you've screwed up, oh it's all ours, ha ha ha ha!' Instead, Justin [LaNasa] came to him and said ... we love that you're doing [I]Top Secret [/I]things, we have a much broader goal for the whole thing. But there's no reason for you to stop or even have any troubles. Justin said, I'll take care of the paperwork, you just give me $10 a year, and you put out all this love for old school gaming that you can. And we appreciate that you were there to try and pick up things, and you produced Gygax Magazine, for in its time that you're also working on a game that you love to play ... because[I] Top Secret[/I] was Jayson's love, as a young man.[/callout] TSR (2), still run by Jayson Elliot, publishes [I]Top Secret, [/I]and is not connected to TSR (3) other than now having to license it’s own name from them. TSR (3) has also [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/a-tsr-announces-a-star-frontiers-reboot.680858/']registered the trademark to [I]Star Frontiers[/I][/URL], a game owned by and still currently sold by D&D-owner WotC. In other news [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/guess-what-other-trademark-has-recently-lapsed.680885/']the GYGAX trademark appears to have lapsed[/URL]. [MEDIA=twitter]1408200339036131331[/MEDIA] [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" width="600px" alt="tsr2.png"]138775[/ATTACH][/CENTER] UPDATE! TSR (2) has decided NOT to license its own name from TSR (3): [callout]Update to our earlier tweet - we will NOT be licensing anything from the new company claiming rights to the TSR logos. We are not working with them in any fashion.[/callout] [/QUOTE]
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