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Beer Pong is a virtual rendition of the popular college drinking game that requires players to toss Ping-Pong balls across a table and into a cup of beer (if your cup is hit, you drink). The game was designed for the popular Nintendo Wii platform, and its maker had planned to release it as the first game in its new Frat Party Games series. But concerned parents began sending angry letters to JV Games and Nintendo - Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal even got in on the action, sending his own missives to the companies - until JV Games agreed...
...original version of this story has been updated with a response from Nintendo...
...Still, you can probably guess which of the two remote-control names is a marketing steamroller (Wiimote) and which is trying to avoid getting flattened into so many transistor chips (Weemote). Nintendo doesn't actually use the term Wiimote in its marketing, but then, it doesn't have to. The Internet takes care of that. Online retailers, from Amazon.com to used-video-game vendors operating out of their houses, advertise the "Wiimote" on their sites, openly or via more obscure means like customer product tags and posted comments. As a result, says Fobis president John Stephen, since...
...proverbial David in the matter, Fobis first approached the Nintendo Goliath in hopes of working out a business solution, one that would give the Redmond, Wash., corporation control of the Weemote trademark - which would seem to make sense, since Nintendo has applied to trademark the Wiimote name in Europe - while helping Fobis rebrand its product. Corporate titans like Microsoft have resolved past trademark problems in similar fashion. Nintendo has so far balked at any such deal. In an email statement, Nintendo spokesperson Charlie Scibetta told TIME, "Because Nintendo does not use and does not plan to use the Weemote trademark...
...Fobis has had to confront the folks that it says are giving Nintendo, intentionally or not, the free ride. Amazon.com, for example, doesn't overtly peddle "Wiimotes" on its site. But if you Google "amazon.com" and "wiimote," you still get results for the actual Amazon portal, like a page for its "Wiimote customer community." (There's even a "community" for the Wiimote recharger...