Do you worry doing so makes it all too commercial, like the Frag Dolls?
Being trademarked doesn’t change the way out guild works at all. Being trademarked is an offshoot of how our guild is and has been for many years. So it certainly doesn’t make us too commercial since we haven’t changed anything about ourselves. We have merely protected our name, logo and motto’s due to our large amount of invested time and energy and capital over the years. We produce a large number of services for our members and we wished to protect those services and our overall entity by obtaining the mark. 5) Have you run into much trouble since trademarking The Syndicate? We have run into very little trouble. There are certainly some angry people in the community that can’t believe we have done this but there seems to be a huge groundswell of support both from players and developers. The biggest negative comment we hear is that we ‘cant’ trademark our name since it has to be based in commerce and most people attribute commerce to be a tangible product. We are actually servicemark
