Blizzard and Valve reach an agreement over DOTA’s Trademark; Blizzard’s DOTA to be renamed


Blizzard revealed today that it has reached an agreement with Valve regarding the trademark issue with DOTA. According to the agreement, Valve will continue to use DOTA commercially, including DOTA 2, while Blizzard will preserve noncommercial use of DOTA for its community with regard to player-created maps for Warcraft III and StarCraft II. In addition, Blizzard’s DOTA game will be renamed to Blizzard All-Stars.
Rob Pardo, executive vice president of game design at Blizzard Entertainment said:
“Both Blizzard and Valve recognize that, at the end of the day, players just want to be able to play the games they’re looking forward to, so we’re happy to come to an agreement that helps both of us stay focused on that.”
Pardo then went on and expressed their plans to rename Blizzard’s DOTA:
“As part of this agreement, we’re going to be changing the name of Blizzard DOTA to Blizzard All-Stars, which ultimately better reflects the design of our game. We look forward to going into more detail on that at a later date.”
Gabe Newell, Valve’s president added:
“We’re pleased that we could come to an agreement with Blizzard without drawing things out in a way that would benefit no one. We both want to focus on the things our fans care about, creating and shipping great games for our communities.”