"Battle Hex-That was unexpected" Topic
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Who asked this joker | 20 Jan 2015 6:37 p.m. PST |
Apparently the BattleHex is the subject of an IP dispute. You can tune into the project page only to get this message. WarHex: A Modular Hexagon Terrain System is the subject of an intellectual property dispute and is currently unavailable.If you are interested in this project, please check back later. Thanks for your patience. If you are a backer of this project, you can always log in to manage your pledge.
From here… link I wonder if this is the reason why? rdoxx.com/index.html |
bsrlee | 20 Jan 2015 6:53 p.m. PST |
There have been a number of hex based terrain systems over at least 30 years that I can think of. Most of them came out as an expensive box of bits with promises of more add ons. None of them seemed to survive the initial release period which always makes me wary of this sort of subscription manufacturing. Any serious I.P. proceedings would be horrendously tortuous (no pun intended) and expensive, and I suspect would fail on the basis of 'prior art'. |
Saber6 | 20 Jan 2015 7:00 p.m. PST |
Even GeoHex did not renew the patent |
Who asked this joker | 20 Jan 2015 7:15 p.m. PST |
I think the only way this makes sense is with the name. Which is why I suspect the plaintiff is RDOXX. They have a BattleHex product. |
vtsaogames | 20 Jan 2015 7:53 p.m. PST |
Not really related but does anyone know of a product compatible with Geo-hex? |
Schogun | 21 Jan 2015 5:30 a.m. PST |
Should always do a name search for a new product. |
Dale Hurtt | 21 Jan 2015 4:23 p.m. PST |
After launching the campaign, we were approached by another company who asserted that they had trademark rights to the battle hex name. Since we had little invested in the name, we let them know that we would rebrand after the campaign. However, due to an unfortunate miscommunication, a dispute notice was filled with Kickstarter. We're not sure what Kickstarter's protocol is for validating the claim, but they suspended our campaign until the issue was resolved, and fortunately it came to a speedy resolution. Kickstarter just made the campaign page public again. Thank you to them! So, in the meantime, we have tried our best to purge the name from the campaign, because the name is not what this campaign is about. We want to create an awesome terrain system for you guys to play on. On short notice, we supplanted the offending name with "The GameMap" as a quick fix. There is not much to do at this point other than roll with the punches and have fun with it. It was an extremely unfortunate situation, and we bear the other company no ill will. We'd like to reach out to all of our backers to help us come up with a new name, and maybe we can polish the page up a bit. Currently our favorite is TERRAForm Tabletop Terrain System. What do you think? Now more then ever, we are hyped up to make this campaign a smashing success. This was a small setback, but we are committed to working hard for you guys. Supporting us with your pledge is a huge deal, and we are more appreciative than you could know. Now, we would like to ask you to rally around us and think of one other person that might be interested in this campaign; please share it with them now. Your voice can help make "GameMap" a better terrain system! Very sincerely, Heath & Seth Robinson Move along. Nothing to see here. Campaign back up but it still has not met its goal. |
Who asked this joker | 22 Jan 2015 1:29 p.m. PST |
They will probably creep over the top tomorrow. The stretch goal I was looking for was double sided so that there would be a lot of open ground on one side and terrain features on the other. I have down graded to $1 USD to help out but I will take a pass on this one. |
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