BOOM! Swedish Paradox acquires White Wolf

Before people start asking, I don't believe this has any impact on a relauch of VTES, as there's still Wizards to deal with. It might mean a new WOD-based CCG, but I have no knowledge of any such possibility.

Ashur wrote:

OK, this might be old but: What does WotC own these days that concerns VTES?

The two main things are US Patent No. RE 37,957 and the Deckmaster trademark on the backs of the cards. There may be other elements - I honestly don't know - but those are the two most significant ones.

BenPeal wrote:

Ashur wrote:

OK, this might be old but: What does WotC own these days that concerns VTES?

The two main things are US Patent No. RE 37,957 and the Deckmaster trademark on the backs of the cards. There may be other elements - I honestly don't know - but those are the two most significant ones.

That patent seems to cover the idea of tapping, and the logo. So if we were to somehow find another way to mark a card as used for the turn, then we could get around that problem, correct?

The second problem is not major, as it only applies to old card print runs, and not, conceivably, any future print runs

Press release from Paradox:

www.paradoxplaza.com/news/Paradox-White-Wolf-Publishing/