[hau]

They have to protect their trademark at least, it's use it or lose it.

[verve_rat]

They can always grant projects like this a non-commercial licence.

Also, the aggressively protect your trademarks or lose them thing is a myth.

[archargelod]

> Also, the aggressively protect your trademarks or lose them thing is a myth.

It's not. For example, Bayuer lost their trademark for aspirin due to genericization.[0]

For more context about copyright, trademark and patent protection by videogame companies and their motivation - I recommend this excellent on-topic video essay by a real lawyer[1].

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i13hrynnGNY

[mort96]

If that's even relevant in this case, surely they would've just asked for the game to be renamed, not taken down?

And if trademark was the issue, where does the libultra stuff come in?