{"id":7009,"date":"2011-12-22T10:37:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T16:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=7009"},"modified":"2011-12-22T10:37:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T16:37:32","slug":"hasbro-rolls-out-lawsuit-over-transformers-prime-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/tablet\/hasbro-rolls-out-lawsuit-over-transformers-prime-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasbro Rolls Out Lawsuit Over Transformers Prime Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we lauded the Asus Transformer Prime tablet in our <a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comhardware\/tablet\/techcitement-holiday-gift-guide-tablets\/\" target=\"_blank\">buying guide<\/a>, the folks at Hasbro are not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2011\/12\/21\/2653920\/hasbro-sues-asus-over-transformer-prime-tablet\" target=\"_blank\">feeling the love<\/a>. If you&#8217;re a Transformers fan, then you likely know that the suffix Prime <a href=\"http:\/\/tfwiki.net\/wiki\/Prime\" target=\"_blank\">has a bit of history<\/a> with the brand. Honestly, I was a bit surprised they didn&#8217;t\u00a0 got after LG for the Optimus. This is a much, much stronger case than that though. While &#8220;transformer&#8221; is a generic term, &#8220;Transformers Prime&#8221; is Hasbro&#8217;s trademarked title for the most recent revision of their iconic toy line and TV show. <em>Transformers Prime<\/em> is also the flagship of their new Hub TV network.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7010\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7010\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7010\" title=\"MLP-show-title-card_1\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MLP-show-title-card_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MLP-show-title-card_1.jpg 548w, https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/MLP-show-title-card_1-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite what internet memes want you to think, this is not the flagship.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the only difference being that the cartoon is in plural form, I think Hasbro actually has an outright duty to defend their trademark. Now if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I have to find something to do to get the theme song to the original cartoon out of my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we lauded the Asus Transformer Prime tablet in our buying guide, the folks at Hasbro are not feeling the love. If you&#8217;re a Transformers fan, then you likely know that the suffix Prime has a bit of history with the brand. Honestly, I was a bit surprised they didn&#8217;t\u00a0 got after LG for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12],"tags":[87,1897,1895,1900,1901,1899,1898,1553,1896,1792,816],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7009"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7015,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions\/7015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}