Friday, December 13, 2002

EQ - Allakhazam's and Friday the 13th

Here's today's news item from Allakhazam's Magical Realm

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posted by Wuphon's Reach at 9:53 PM

EQ - The Lost Dungeons of Norrath?

Sometimes fortune smiles your way and you find a link like this on the message boards:

Thank you for your request. Here are the latest results from the TARR web server.
This page was generated by the TARR system on 12/13/2002 15:02:20 ET
Serial Number: 76470262
Registration Number: (NOT AVAILABLE)
Mark (words only): EVERQUEST: THE LOST DUNGEONS OF NORRATH
Current Status: Newly filed application, not yet assigned to an examining attorney.
Date of Status: 2002-12-03
Filing Date: 2002-11-29

The TARR server is part of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, which lets you retrieve information about applications and registrations. Information from the FAQ indicates that there is a search service called TESS. Searching on "EVERQUEST" revealed the following trademarks:

76470262 EVERQUEST: THE LOST DUNGEONS OF NORRATH
76448427 EVERQUEST ATLAS: THE MAPS OF MYRIST
76382821 EVERQUEST: THE PLANES OF POWER
75879771 2562334 EVERQUEST: THE RUINS OF KUNARK
75666053 2520693 EVERQUEST
75666108 2507594 EVERQUEST
75133750 2137911 EVERQUEST
74133454 1700975 EVERQUEST

Which is interesting, because the Velious Expansion doesn't appear here (some of the last 4 entries are for stuff like figurines and key-chains, or logos).

Ah, here's the link to Scars of Velious 76096340

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 3:29 PM

Wednesday, December 11, 2002

Update

So yeah, nothing much going on at the moment, just some long days of work. A 7 hour Kael raid on Sunday afternoon, complete with multiple wipes.

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 10:19 AM