“Pond Versus Bond” – James Bond’s IP Owner Opposes Trademark For Cult UK Video Game Character

System 3 filed for the UK trademark in May 2025.

The cult UK video game character James Pond has once again found himself in the middle of a trademark battle with Danjaq, the owners of the James Bond IP, according to a new report from the World Trademark Review journalist Tim Lince.

James Pond is a character who first debuted in Vectordean and Millennium Interactive’s 1990 title James Pond: Underwater Agent, for Commodore Amiga & Atari ST, and was a parody of James Bond, created by the developer Chris Sorrell. It was later the subject of a Sega Mega Drive / Genesis port, published by Electronic Arts, and, since his first adventure, has gone on to appear in a number of sequels, with James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod arguably being the most famous of these, due to its abundance of reissues over the years.

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System 3 filed for the UK trademark in May 2025.

The cult UK video game character James Pond has once again found himself in the middle of a trademark battle with Danjaq, the owners of the James Bond IP, according to a new report from the World Trademark Review journalist Tim Lince.

James Pond is a character who first debuted in Vectordean and Millennium Interactive’s 1990 title James Pond: Underwater Agent, for Commodore Amiga & Atari ST, and was a parody of James Bond, created by the developer Chris Sorrell. It was later the subject of a Sega Mega Drive / Genesis port, published by Electronic Arts, and, since his first adventure, has gone on to appear in a number of sequels, with James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod arguably being the most famous of these, due to its abundance of reissues over the years.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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