Gaming🎮 Good news, Tarnished, it looks like FromSoftware is now the sole owner of the Elden Ring IP

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When FromSoftware originally delivered the wonderful, twisted baby Elden Ring, it did so with some help from Bandai Namco, which served as a co-publisher and, at that point, was a co-holder of the game’s IP. However, it appears that FromSoft has now taken full ownership of the latter.

While we’ve all been concentrating on the whether or not the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion might arrive at some point soon or whether we’ll have to wait until further down the line, some people have been busy sleuthing over on the US Patent and Trademark Office’s website and the UK’s equivalent, the IPO. You know, as you do.

On the listings for Elden Ring, they’ve spotted an update showing that the ownership of this trademark was officially transferred over to FromSoftware as of April 2023. This is something that seemingly wasn’t acknowledged via a public announcement at the time - at least not via a nice tweet from FromSoft’s official Twitter account.

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