I think it's a shame the Luke Gygax TSR failed - which seemed to be due to conflict with Gail Gygax over the name of Gygax magazine etc. That was probably the best opportunity for a positive gaming legacy.
This lawsuit is nonsense, of course. New TSR may have some good arguments about the simple word mark 'TSR' which probably was out of use for a period of time, but they'd have to make that argument carefully since the reason they want to use it is its association with goods and services still provided by WotC, and by the time they started to use it, WotC had re-started using the mark in commerce (by re-starting selling old products via the DM's Guild). Their arguments about the old logos are even weaker - they can't acquire rights to use the art/design of those logos except by agreement with the copyright owner who is, almost certainly, WotC.
Twitter thread of a commercial litigator reading through and responding to the claim here:
This lawsuit is nonsense, of course. New TSR may have some good arguments about the simple word mark 'TSR' which probably was out of use for a period of time, but they'd have to make that argument carefully since the reason they want to use it is its association with goods and services still provided by WotC, and by the time they started to use it, WotC had re-started using the mark in commerce (by re-starting selling old products via the DM's Guild). Their arguments about the old logos are even weaker - they can't acquire rights to use the art/design of those logos except by agreement with the copyright owner who is, almost certainly, WotC.
Twitter thread of a commercial litigator reading through and responding to the claim here: