King_Moc said: Also, I think Ubisoft are pretty much obligated to defend their trademark if they own one for anything with 'ghost' in the name, aren't they? Click to expand...

Basically yes.When EA sends off the application to trademark the USPTO responds by giving them a list of similar names that are already trademarked, the obvious being Ubisofts. Ubisoft are then told about this conflicting application.EA would then have to file a claim against Ubisofts trademark saying they have more right to it. The usual case is claiming "first use" which means EA would be stating they used the word first in reference to videogames.Chances are Ubisoft used it first so EA have no basis for a claim, so they dropped it.The lawyers at EA should have done better research in the beginning before filing a trademark application. Probably why it was dropped so fast.