Read: patent office saw two things with same name, hit deny without researching, are dumb, inconsiderate jerks.

If this got denied due to similarity, how the hell did Fox get the rights to Killer Instinct? I guess we can thank the entertainment industry for the continued double standard. Hey entertainment industry, video games are legit stop ignoring them.

confusion how if i never heard of the show but only the game.And the game came first and i think theres a old movie by the same name thats even older then the game. MS get back in there bring this game back now!!!!

So when MS is trying to make a good game the courts and Fox channel deny them that. I swear, Fox has been at my bad side ever since the Mass Effect romance part.

Wait, wasn't killer instinct first released as an arcade game before that awful fox show appeared?

Also, probably just as well... there is no way anyone in the modern game industry can do such a creative and fun fighter justice. Nothing I've seen in the past 3 years can make me think otherwise.

I know they are rival companies but this is a case where Microsoft should parnter with Nintendo in getting this trademark passed or a least purchased from Fox.

Uh...how about make a new trademark?

Oh screw you, Fox.  Screw you and your graveyard of cancelled mediocre shows.

How did the TV show get the trademark if its content was deemed too similar to the video game's to begin with? What a load of hot garbage. Not that Microsoft has done anything with KI's trademark in forever. With fighting games back in the mainstream thanks to SF4, MK, Tekken Tag 2, DOA5 etc, it boggles my mind that Microsoft wouldn't bring KI back as a 360 exclusive.

The Killer Instinct game trademark has been around a lot longer, and way more was done with it than some retarded Fox reality show. Microsoft waited way too damn long to do something with Rare's brands, and this is the outcome. Had they made a Killer Instinct game in the decade since they acquired Rare, this never would've happened.

That is most ridiculous.  Someone should try and chalk up the failed Fox tv show as another "worst live action adaption of a video game."  That should be easy since it had nothing in common with Killer Instinct.  Can't they renew the game as just KI?

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So, my question is this... How did that crummy Fox show get the OK to use that name considering Killer Instinct came out 10 years before that show...????

Next question, why didn't we have a Killer Instinct game for the 360 with Perfect Dark 0??? Poor Rare... never should have left nintendo...  They are now just a footnote.

You know fox has a history of this... Right after Perfect Dark came out they came out with a show about a hot spy called "Dark Angel"  Anyone remember that...?  Fox loves to ride em some coat tails....

Slightly change the name to get around trademark...

Well, it'd be nice to see again...

Yes, because we all know Fox Network has such meaningful shows that anyone in their right mind who would copyright them is a dead man. >_>

So, a fighting game that while never as popular as Street Fighter, is beloved, versus a TV show that never got off the ground.

Yeah, nice ruling.

thats why everyone sucks