Activision in trademark dispute with indie dev who made a game called Warzone three years before them

Last year, Activision filed to trademark Warzone, the name of their popular Call Of Duty battle royale. However, an indie developer behind a browser-based strategy game that's also called Warzone sent a cease-and-desist to stop them. Fast forward to this year, and Activision have filed a lawsuit to declare that the two games couldn't possibly be confused, and the indie Warzone dev has started a GoFundMe to raise enough money to fight the publisher in court. Strap in, this one's a tad messy.

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