Do you think it's fair to trademark a game "Style"?

[高野和泉]

Somehow Square managed to seized exclusivity for the HD-2D style of games.

Octopath Traveler's "HD2D" is now a Square Enix trademark

Square Enix has trademarked the name of Octopath Traveler's "HD2D" visual style.The Nintendo Switch role-playing game s…

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So now if you make a "Similar" style of games your opened to lawsuits???

 

[Mittens2317]

They've only trademarked the name. Owning the rights to a style would likely have to be patented instead. I wouldn't worry too much, as it's like if Sega trademarked FREE. Nobody else even wanted to use it.