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tpirfansince1972:
I gather a good portion of us here know and/or remember the stink Barry & Enright made when Price is Right's Check Game had the original name Blank Check. 

Blank Check was a very short lived B&E property back in the mid 1970s for a very short time.  Price is Right's Blank Check debuted some six years later, but B&E bellyached about Price using that name, and thus Check Game's name resulted from it.

Conversely, Price's Bullseye game (the grocery item game) debuted in 1976, some 4 years before the Barry/Enright Jim Lange hosted "Bullseye" debuted.

I think Mark Goodson was classy enough to just let that go though, but I wonder if he could have made a case.

Similarly, the program seemed to turn a blind eye when the 2007 "Temptation" game show debuted, which was a horrible recreation of "$ale of the Century".

Chief-O:

--- Quote from: tpirfansince1972 on June 02, 2023, 05:23:14 PM ---Similarly, the program seemed to turn a blind eye when the 2007 "Temptation" game show debuted, which was a horrible recreation of "$ale of the Century".

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Doubt that would've been much of an issue.....Fremantle produced "Temptation".

GRWHAMMY the 2nd:
i think "bullseye" as a term is too general for such a thing

keep in mind that they'd also had to go argue against the UK show of the same name with darts and trivia

gamesurf:

--- Quote from: tpirfansince1972 on June 02, 2023, 05:23:14 PM ---I think Mark Goodson was classy enough to just let that go though, but I wonder if he could have made a case.

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I don't know the details of Enright's lawsuit or how good his lawyers were. If the way it's been repeated on internet message boards over the years is accurate, Enright's claim was stupid and wouldn't have held up.

But the merits of the case don't really matter--it's "lawfare". It would have cost everyone involved more time and money and resources to fight the trademark infringement claim than it would to just change the name. Goodson might have won on the merits, but it would never have been worth the trouble for Goodson to fight it. I suspect Enright knew that when he filed his suit.

Alfonzo:
Notice the lawsuit was filed after Jack Barry's death. I sincerely doubt that if Jack was still around in some capacity the lawsuit would have ever happened as Jack was in very friendly terms with Mark Goodson and Bob Barker.

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