Chronicle Games sues AR glasses maker Nreal over its title

Chronicle Games has filed a lawsuit in opposition to blended-actuality glasses firm Nreal over an alleged trademark infringement. It claims the firm’s title “seems and sounds nearly equivalent” to Unreal and mentioned that develop to be as soon as “no twist of fate.” Chronicle additionally mentioned within the swimsuit that the two corporations are competing within the equivalent market and instant the similarity would possibly maybe maybe trigger confusion.

“Chronicle has ten registrations for ‘Unreal’ by myself or in connection with but another term for a huge fluctuate of products and products and services including however no longer restricted to tool, video games, digital worlds, and 3D visualizations, animations, and platforms,” in step with the swimsuit.

Nreal launched its Nreal Gentle blended-actuality glasses in South Korea final one year and it plans to originate them within the US this quarter, as The Verge notes. Even though Chronicle would no longer but possess AR hardware of its accept as true with, it has confirmed hobby within the AR/VR arena. In 2017, Chronicle launched Robo Lift, a digital actuality sport it developed with Unreal Engine.

Chronicle is seeking an injunction that would power Nreal to withdraw its trademark application, as correctly as unspecified damages. The corporations were struggling with over the Unreal moniker for a few years. They’d been in discussions over a settlement however weren’t in a neighborhood to reach an settlement, in step with the swimsuit.

Nreal has faced other correct disorders within the US. Final one year, a court threw out a teach by Magic Jump that a Nreal founder and CEO Chi Xu, a mild employee, broken-down “stolen” secrets to back assemble his firm. Chronicle, needless to dispute, is embroiled in but another predominant lawsuit. The third week of its bench trial in opposition to Apple is underway.