Activision sues indie dev over Warzone name in Call of Duty dispute - Polygon

On April 8, Activision filed a formal complaint against the indie developer behind the browser-based strategy game Warzone.

The Warzone strategy game was developed by Randy Ficker, who is not named in the complaint and is instead identified as Warzone.com.

20, 2020, Warzone.com’s counsel sent a cease and desist letter “demanding that Activision ‘change the name of its games, stop using Warzone’s WARZONE mark, and abandon the trademark applications.’” Activision also claims that Warzone.com has threatened legal action against the company over the name, including seeking “massive damages.”.

Warzone.com’s initial assertion for blocking Activision’s trademark was that the name caused significant confusion between Activision’s Call of Duty game and the Warzone strategy game.

“Activision’s Call of Duty: Warzone could not be more different from Defendant’s game, a low-budget, niche virtual board game like Hasbro’s Risk where players take turns moving numbers (representing “armies”) across a map of the world.