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Bible Card Game Animo, infringing on Pokémon Trading Card Game, Disney, and Wizards Of The Coast potential property

Okay so let me start from the top

Over the past month, I have been getting advertisements in my news feed for a new card game called Animo: Living Deck Bible Verse. This card game is a Christian based card game that has Animal monster like characters displayed on cards, that kind of felt like Pokémon cards as some character designs mirror Pokémon character designs. After dealing with the months worth of annoying advertisement in my newsfeed, and behold this card game is on battle grounds for many major potential lawsuits from not only Pokémon and Disney but also from Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro. Also I am posting this, because I want to make sure that I am not the only one that sees big major flaws in Animos card game design and flaws. I have showed my daughter the cards online and other component’s to the Animo game, she and other children have said that they look like Pokémon cards.

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The Pokémon side to this game

1. First off starting with the logo designs for both company’s using same color scheme of Yellow and Blue. Both fonts are not the same fonts, but font layout kind of looks the same, as the letters overlap each other, in an almost same style manner.

2. The game mat is a direct copy of the Pokémon Trading Card games layout, but with Animo logo and a few other features.

3. The card set up like Monster cards also include evolution like cards , Energy look alike cards, and story cards that mimic trainer cards. Also some of the tokens used in the game mimic the Pokémon trading card games tokens.

Animos:

Pokemons:

4. A bit of the character design maybe over 20+ cards closely resemble a lot of Pokémon characters, when putting them side by side. People at the company do character design, but have children as well design cards. When you have children designing the cards, they will try to make them look like Pokémon, or the adult artists with no creative background will make look a like characters that mimic Pokémon. Not all that I have compared may look similar, but will have similar features.

Link to fully see https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/3817/Z3Kflh.jpg

5. One character design is Klench looking very close to Mewtwo.

6. Creators made a statement on there website stating that there children became obsessed with a certain card game and with out hinting that it is Pokémon. But lets be honest that it is Pokémon they are talking about, and I highly doubt they would be playing Yu-Gi-Oh or Magic The Gathering.

link if you cant read it https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/5/gfYJYL.jpg

7. Creators of the Animo Card game really had no creativity when making there knock off version of the PTCG, and never thought how they may someday handle a few potential lawsuits from companies like Pokémon, Disney, WOTC, and Hasbro.

8. This company basically believes that all of the work they do is of there own creativity and doing, and that God Will protect there game, and punish those that are against it. Also I am not angry or sad according to the person with the cat they are using for a profile pic. I was just telling them in a post that I had deleted, that Animo is not original and has a lot of copyright issues. There is nothing wrong with pointing out another games flaws.

9. This company started a Kick Starter to help fund the Animo Project, the project raised over $15,572 and had 233 backers pledging to help bring this project to life. So I think that was there first fund for the game. Kickstarter has a link about how they can remove a Kickstarter projects, if they are in breach of copyright of using others intellect property.

https://www.kickstarter.com/help/copyright

I have sent a few e-mails regarding to the large amounts of plagiarism and copyright infringement to the Pokémon company, that Animo bible cards are basically copying off there set up. After doing research on other card game set up between Magic the Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh and other trading card games layouts. None of the other card game layouts mimic the Pokémon’s Trading Card games layout, or how the cards need to be set up in order to play the game. This Animo card game decided to mimic Pokémon’s card gaming layout style instead of coming up with something originally there’s.

My Email asking someone at Pokémon about starting a new card game, questions of my own with typos.

The Respond that I had gotten back from Pokémon, about making a game look like its card game

The Pokémon Company International legal team email

[email protected]

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Disney issues

1. This card game has a few card games in the game that mimic Star Wars looking like monster characters. The characters are dressed up in Star Wars like getup. Also the names of these characters are Obeywan, Tadawan, and I am sure the Obeywan name may not settle well with Disney.

2. The backgrounds of some of the cards display background photos from some of the Star Wars movies that are episodes 4-6 I believe. I would not know because I am not a star wars fan or have not seen the films. So basically there character drawings are placed in center on the front of snapshots of the star wars films who are now owned by Disney.

3. They are also selling merchandise with there Star Wars like characters on there website.

My final thought on the issue with Disney copyright infringement.

I know for a fact that Disney is very protective of its property and have gone after many people with lawsuits and C&D or Cease and Desist letters for infringing on its property. Disney does have options to license stuff they own, but I have no doubt that the Animo card creators did not even contact Disney to license its products for fair use of its products and property, because it is expensive to do so. I also don’t think Disney would even grant this card game permission to use so images within the cards, because Animo is not owned by Disney and would not be protected by Disney for using its images. After reading up on many Disney lawsuits, I kind of seen what they may do or how they would approach a lawsuit. I did contact Disney about this card game infringing on there property when they should not be doing so, because of how harsh Disney is with people who steel there property.

Disney Lawsuits

One lawsuit happened back in 2008, when Disney had gone after a party company in Florida, who were advertising birthday party like deals, using fake look alike Tigger and Eeyore costumes. The couple had bought the fake costumes off of eBay from some seller out of Peru, down in South America. Disney had sent this couple a C&D letter from its legal team, and told them to send the knock off costumes to Disney for them to properly dispose of the costumes. The couple refused to do so, and sent the costume back to Peru for a complete refund of $500 dollars. After the couple failed to work with Disney, they were then sued by Disney for $1 million dollars for not complying with Disney’s C&D notice.

The fake costumes

The costume lawsuit

https://www.disneyorama.com/2008/07/disney-sues-family-business/

Since Disney has obtained Lucasfilm’s and the Star Wars franchise, Disney has been cracking down hard on people who infringe on the property they now own.

Lucas Films before Disney has also sued people for copyright and infringing when selling knockoff fake star wars merchandise.

Article about lawsuits Lucas Film and Disney had thrown at people or were involved

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/10/18/star-wars-lawsuits-who-has-lucasfilm-sued-and-why/

Disney’s link to report copyright claims

[email protected]

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Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro’s potential involvement

After find out more on copyright relating to game play that led me to looking of Wizards of the Coast information.

ghash4 A user from https://boardgamegeek.com/article/21300188#21300188 Posted this in which I will quote.

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I did some preliminary research with a patent attorney and posted here is a summery of his response. The outlook is grim. Anyone have any advice about how to avoid some of the pitfalls. If you have already published a card game with expansions and customizable decks I would love to grill you about these legal issues. Thanks for all your advice over the years BGG.[

“After extensive research regarding the Wizards of the

Coast (“Wizards”) patent and how other trading card games (“TCG’s”) are able to operate in the

marketplace, we have prepared the following.”

“A TCG which employs any of these methods requires a license or risks infringing

Wizards’ patent.”

“Further, slight modifications between the rules of Magic and your game could still infringe Wizards’ patent under a legal theory known as the Doctrine of Equivalents. The Doctrine of Equivalents expands a patent’s protection beyond the literal scope of the claims to also encompass “equivalent” inventions. In other words, Wizards’ patent may apply to other TCG’s that use a modified version of the rules for Magic, thus requiring a license from Wizards just the same.”

“Research has found that companies are paying Wizards a licensing fee and those who fail to do

so have paid for it – probably at a premium – in legal fees. Nintendo appears to be one actor

who was forced to pay a hefty settlement to Wizard for violating its patent.

Wizards also appear to be an aggressive and effective enforcer of its patent rights. Initially,

Wizards’ and Nintendo had a licensing agreement regarding the Pokémon TCG. However, the

day after that license agreement expired, Wizard’s filed suit for patent infringement.”

“Wizards’ litigiousness only seems to have expanded since being acquired by Hasbro. One article

in particular, The Game Player: Barry Nagler Makes His Mark Protecting Hasbro From Enemy

Infringers, describes Hasbro’s attorney, Barry Nagler, as an aggressive enforcer of his

company’s intellectual property portfolio. One instance detailed in this article deserves mention

for the purposes of this discussion:

In the process of enforcing Hasbro’s IP rights, Nagler has angered some in the software

industry and online community who feel his company has been overly aggressive. Critics,

for instance, often point to a recent case in which Hasbro threatened to sue a mother who had obtained the domain name www.dinobot.org for her son. Apparently, Dinobot was

her son’s net nickname. Unfortunately for the kid, it also was a Hasbro trademark.

Nagler understands the critics’ concerns, but believes it isn’t his job to be a nice guy.

"There are some circumstances where we are perceived to be overly aggressive, and we

are conscious of that,” Nagler says. “But at the end of the day, I’ve got to do what is right

for my company.”

“Konami holds their own TCG device and method patent (Patent # 6,398,651). Basically,

Konami was able to show that their TCG improved upon the Wizards patent because Konami’s

version is more easily understood by children in addition to other innovations related to playing a

TCG on digital media. In doing so, Konami received the exclusive right to market their Yu-Gi-Oh

TCG in a method considered to be simpler than that found in Magic. Nonetheless, Konami is

still probably paying Wizards a license fee because, often, improvement patents need a license

from the underlying invention or method to practice their improvement.”

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It is very well possible since this card game seemed like it was poorly planned, that I don’t think they have even contacted WOTC and talk about layout design or pay for a license for it or something.

Wizards Of The Coast Legal team for reporting

[email protected]

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Last and final thought on this new card games issues of theft and lack of creativity, that billion dollar corporations love.

The creators of the card game are not being careful when it comes to game design, and have no original ideas really. If Disney and Pokémon Do slap C&D letters telling them to get rid of its merchandise, Animo will then have to send all the boxed cards or products they still have or have not sold in order for Disney and the Pokémon Company to destroy, which is basically everything they have. What ever Animo had sold, the will have to pay both company’s money for what was sold, and then the potential lawsuit for infringing and copyrighting on its ideas and property.

I know people hate others who report other company’s of infringement and plagiarism. But as a graphic designer, I have learned in school about copyright issues and how it is wrong to copy from other people, and also my class had talked heavily on Disney in general, about how strict they are and how to avoid issues with Disney. After emailing Disney about the issue, I was given a respond in seconds with this to say or call it an Automatic response

“Thank you for your correspondence. We want you to know that we appreciate the time you took to bring this matter to our attention. We protect our intellectual property rights vigorously and we take reports of suspected infringements seriously. However, as you can appreciate, investigations are confidential. We neither reveal our sources nor generally correspond further with them about any investigation”

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My Very Very last thought on the whole issue

Shame on Animo for Steeling from other corporations for a game you claim is 100% original when it is not. This game company Claims they are people of God and Jesus, and live a wholesome religious lifestyle with there families and children. The major down fall of the people claiming they are good Christans, but Clearly not when they are breaking one of Gods 10 Commandments “Thou shall Not Steal”. The thou shall not steal also applies to thou shall not plagiarize and infringe on ones copyrights, trademarts, and Patents.

As this continues, I will keep updates if the company does indeed have any potential lawsuits or anything like it in the future.

#pokemon #disney #star wars #animo #card game #plagerism #wizards of the coast #hasbro #copyright infringement #theft #lawsuit

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Bible Card Game Animo, infringing on Pokémon Trading Card Game, Disney, and Wizards Of The Coast potential property

Okay so let me start from the top

Over the past month, I have been getting advertisements in my news feed for a new card game called Animo: Living Deck Bible Verse. This card game is a Christian based card game that has Animal monster like characters displayed on cards, that kind of felt like Pokémon cards as some character designs mirror Pokémon character designs. After dealing with the months worth of annoying advertisement in my newsfeed, and behold this card game is on battle grounds for many major potential lawsuits from not only Pokémon and Disney but also from Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro. Also I am posting this, because I want to make sure that I am not the only one that sees big major flaws in Animos card game design and flaws. I have showed my daughter the cards online and other component's to the Animo game, she and other children have said that they look like Pokémon cards.

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The Pokémon side to this game

1. First off starting with the logo designs for both company's using same color scheme of Yellow and Blue. Both fonts are not the same fonts, but font layout kind of looks the same, as the letters overlap each other, in an almost same style manner.

2. The game mat is a direct copy of the Pokémon Trading Card games layout, but with Animo logo and a few other features.

Animos:

Pokemons:

Link to fully see https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/3817/Z3Kflh.jpg

5. One character design is Klench looking very close to Mewtwo.

link if you cant read it https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/5/gfYJYL.jpg

https://www.kickstarter.com/help/copyright

I have sent a few e-mails regarding to the large amounts of plagiarism and copyright infringement to the Pokémon company, that Animo bible cards are basically copying off there set up. After doing research on other card game set up between Magic the Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh and other trading card games layouts. None of the other card game layouts mimic the Pokémon's Trading Card games layout, or how the cards need to be set up in order to play the game. This Animo card game decided to mimic Pokémon's card gaming layout style instead of coming up with something originally there's.

My Email asking someone at Pokémon about starting a new card game, questions of my own with typos.

The Respond that I had gotten back from Pokémon, about making a game look like its card game

The Pokémon Company International legal team email

[email protected]

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Disney issues

3. They are also selling merchandise with there Star Wars like characters on there website.

My final thought on the issue with Disney copyright infringement.

I know for a fact that Disney is very protective of its property and have gone after many people with lawsuits and C&D or Cease and Desist letters for infringing on its property. Disney does have options to license stuff they own, but I have no doubt that the Animo card creators did not even contact Disney to license its products for fair use of its products and property, because it is expensive to do so. I also don't think Disney would even grant this card game permission to use so images within the cards, because Animo is not owned by Disney and would not be protected by Disney for using its images. After reading up on many Disney lawsuits, I kind of seen what they may do or how they would approach a lawsuit. I did contact Disney about this card game infringing on there property when they should not be doing so, because of how harsh Disney is with people who steel there property.

Disney Lawsuits

The fake costumes

The costume lawsuit

https://www.disneyorama.com/2008/07/disney-sues-family-business/

Since Disney has obtained Lucasfilm's and the Star Wars franchise, Disney has been cracking down hard on people who infringe on the property they now own.

Lucas Films before Disney has also sued people for copyright and infringing when selling knockoff fake star wars merchandise.

Article about lawsuits Lucas Film and Disney had thrown at people or were involved

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/10/18/star-wars-lawsuits-who-has-lucasfilm-sued-and-why/

Disney's link to report copyright claims

[email protected]

---------------------------------------------

Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro's potential involvement

After find out more on copyright relating to game play that led me to looking of Wizards of the Coast information.

ghash4 A user from https://boardgamegeek.com/article/21300188#21300188 Posted this in which I will quote.

********************************

"After extensive research regarding the Wizards of the

Coast (“Wizards”) patent and how other trading card games (“TCG’s”) are able to operate in the

marketplace, we have prepared the following."

"A TCG which employs any of these methods requires a license or risks infringing

Wizards’ patent."

"Further, slight modifications between the rules of Magic and your game could still infringe Wizards’ patent under a legal theory known as the Doctrine of Equivalents. The Doctrine of Equivalents expands a patent’s protection beyond the literal scope of the claims to also encompass “equivalent” inventions. In other words, Wizards’ patent may apply to other TCG’s that use a modified version of the rules for Magic, thus requiring a license from Wizards just the same."

"Research has found that companies are paying Wizards a licensing fee and those who fail to do

so have paid for it – probably at a premium – in legal fees. Nintendo appears to be one actor

who was forced to pay a hefty settlement to Wizard for violating its patent.

Wizards also appear to be an aggressive and effective enforcer of its patent rights. Initially,

Wizards’ and Nintendo had a licensing agreement regarding the Pokémon TCG. However, the

day after that license agreement expired, Wizard’s filed suit for patent infringement."

"Wizards’ litigiousness only seems to have expanded since being acquired by Hasbro. One article

in particular, The Game Player: Barry Nagler Makes His Mark Protecting Hasbro From Enemy

Infringers, describes Hasbro’s attorney, Barry Nagler, as an aggressive enforcer of his

company’s intellectual property portfolio. One instance detailed in this article deserves mention

for the purposes of this discussion:

In the process of enforcing Hasbro's IP rights, Nagler has angered some in the software

industry and online community who feel his company has been overly aggressive. Critics,

for instance, often point to a recent case in which Hasbro threatened to sue a mother who had obtained the domain name www.dinobot.org for her son. Apparently, Dinobot was

her son's net nickname. Unfortunately for the kid, it also was a Hasbro trademark.

Nagler understands the critics' concerns, but believes it isn't his job to be a nice guy.

"There are some circumstances where we are perceived to be overly aggressive, and we

are conscious of that," Nagler says. "But at the end of the day, I've got to do what is right

for my company."

"Konami holds their own TCG device and method patent (Patent # 6,398,651). Basically,

Konami was able to show that their TCG improved upon the Wizards patent because Konami’s

version is more easily understood by children in addition to other innovations related to playing a

TCG on digital media. In doing so, Konami received the exclusive right to market their Yu-Gi-Oh

TCG in a method considered to be simpler than that found in Magic. Nonetheless, Konami is

still probably paying Wizards a license fee because, often, improvement patents need a license

from the underlying invention or method to practice their improvement."

************************************

It is very well possible since this card game seemed like it was poorly planned, that I don't think they have even contacted WOTC and talk about layout design or pay for a license for it or something.

Wizards Of The Coast Legal team for reporting

[email protected]

--------------------------

Last and final thought on this new card games issues of theft and lack of creativity, that billion dollar corporations love.

The creators of the card game are not being careful when it comes to game design, and have no original ideas really. If Disney and Pokémon Do slap C&D letters telling them to get rid of its merchandise, Animo will then have to send all the boxed cards or products they still have or have not sold in order for Disney and the Pokémon Company to destroy, which is basically everything they have. What ever Animo had sold, the will have to pay both company's money for what was sold, and then the potential lawsuit for infringing and copyrighting on its ideas and property.

I know people hate others who report other company's of infringement and plagiarism. But as a graphic designer, I have learned in school about copyright issues and how it is wrong to copy from other people, and also my class had talked heavily on Disney in general, about how strict they are and how to avoid issues with Disney. After emailing Disney about the issue, I was given a respond in seconds with this to say or call it an Automatic response

"Thank you for your correspondence. We want you to know that we appreciate the time you took to bring this matter to our attention. We protect our intellectual property rights vigorously and we take reports of suspected infringements seriously. However, as you can appreciate, investigations are confidential. We neither reveal our sources nor generally correspond further with them about any investigation"

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My Very Very last thought on the whole issue

Shame on Animo for Steeling from other corporations for a game you claim is 100% original when it is not. This game company Claims they are people of God and Jesus, and live a wholesome religious lifestyle with there families and children. The major down fall of the people claiming they are good Christans, but Clearly not when they are breaking one of Gods 10 Commandments "Thou shall Not Steal". The thou shall not steal also applies to thou shall not plagiarize and infringe on ones copyrights, trademarts, and Patents.

As this continues, I will keep updates if the company does indeed have any potential lawsuits or anything like it in the future.

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