Diablo 3 Update
It seems the trademark was "Published for opposition in early 2007, February 13th to be exact.
This means that any competition to the name Diablo now has a chance to oppose the trademark for whatever reason.
WOW was released a year after the name was published for opposition, but that doesn't seem to be the case for Diablo 3.
If there is no successful opposition it will become an official registered trademark and finally ready to be put for sale.
For a refresher, this trademark includes rights for a movie title: "ENTERTAINMENT IN THE NATURE OF AN ONGOING TELEVISION PROGRAM IN THE FIELD OF CHARACTERS AND PLOTS BASED ON A VIDEO GAME; AND PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MOTION PICTURES"; BUT it doesn't look like it will be titled "DIABLO II: SALVATION" as that trademark is now DEAD.
Read: DEAD, like Starcraft: Ghost! LOL (yes, that is officially dead Abandonment Date December 4, 2005)
I would also like to confirm Blizzard's plans on producing in-game communication software. Perhaps you head of this, but Battlechat - "Virtual network telecommunications services, namely, providing an interface for the electronic transmission of messages and data including voice, text, and message transmission" was filed at the USPTO on January 11, 2008
Edit: thnx Soul
"number of DAYS until..." not hours.
it says the number of days till half the intenet links to diablo 3
14lol days not unitts
Holy crap- I just got slammed in the face with a childhood memory- Slowpoke is a Poke'mon!
http://www.diablo3.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4304
It was decided that the trademark activity was for one of the diablo books.
Scott: "And what if they don't get shot down?"
Dr. Evil: "Scott, daddy doesn't have time for your questions ok? This is serious family business."
Scott: "Hey, I'm just saying, we could use like 50 million mandaclorians, out of the 100 billion we got last time, pay some scientist to make a bomb, and boom, everyone goes to heaven.
Dr. Evil: " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvd3kaupZ60 "
don't spam the boards with completely unrelated bullshit that no1 cares about
Perhaps better to have you have deleted, should then the individual, nothing to look forward to come june and beyond. It's your loss, not mine, wait a few weeks then, hehe.
because, i dont know about you, but when i hear about a new game i put the title of the game into my url bar...but surprise! it doesn't link to blizzard it links to us!! lol
I would also like to point your attention to the source, the United States Patent Office.
A man doesn't get a fishing license and never intend on using it to go fishing, and the same is true here.
Does anyone register with this site just for the fun of it? No, they do it because it is the first rule in posting in the forums.
idk what ur talking about the sluggishness of site... its prolly just ur walmart connection... and like said before.. d3 announcment would be a wwi on the anniversary of d2 an d2lod both released on 29th of june and blizzcons second day is the 29th ^_^.... most likely blizzy taking over