Activision Secures All Types Of Warfare

Activision has gone out on a trademarking spree recently, securing possible names for future Call of Duty titles such as Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Call of Duty: Space Warfare. On the same day, they’ve also registered countless domains for each title and their possible sequels.

The mega-publisher has secured trademarks for: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty: Future Warfare, Call of Duty: Secret Warfare, Call of Duty: Space Warfare, Future Warfare, Secret Warfare, and Space Warfare.

Registered domains include the following:

http://whois.domaintools.com/callofdutyfuturewarfare.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/callofdutyfuturewarfare2.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/callofdutyfuturewarfare3.com

Could one of these be the new “action–adventure” Call of Duty title in development at Sledgehammer Games for 2011? Looks like it.

What’s more interesting is the fact that they’ve trademarked the sole names (minus the Call of Duty title) for Space Warfare, Secret Warfare, etc. Would this mean that other developers would not be able to use these as subtitles in their games? I’m not to keen on trademark law, so one of you would have to help me out on that.

Thanks, Superannuation. (1 and 2)