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Scrolls scrolls scrolls scrolls scrolls!
The scroll: in existence for millennia.
This is just a quick little public note to Bethesda, who seem to be unaware that their mangy pack of flea-bitten lawyers has gotten out of the yard and are running around, rooting in garbage cans, snarling at children, and generally making a public nuisance of themselves.
NOTICE: you do NOT own the word 'scrolls'. It's that simple. Stop acting like you do. Just stop it. Now, before you irreparably ruin the fairly high regard in which you're currently (and precariously) held by most gamers.
Seriously, no good can come from this for you. If you insist on suing the Mojang guys for [gasp!] injecting something else into the universe that includes the word 'scrolls', I will have no choice but to hate you so hard I'll get a hernia. And I'll be in very good company: specifically pretty much everyone who plays games.
Even if you were 100% within your inalienable legal right to prevent Mojang from using the word 'scrolls' (which you are not, let's be clear on that), it would _still_ be in your best interest to refrain from doing so. You're a gigantic and hugely successful game developer and publisher, one of the very few mainstream entities that is _not_ generally perceived as a den of jack-booted thugs whose only concern is the total subjugation of all humanity, achieved via the forced slave labor of brow-beaten employees whom you systematically chew up and spit out as grist for your money mill.
But make no mistake - if you sue Mojang in such an flagrantly selfish overreach of common sense, indulging in narcissism on an epic scale, then you will be immediately added to the pantheon of despised companies that are (rightly) assigned blame and eternal scorn for crushing the few remaining vestiges of soul out of the video game industry.
So please don't do that. Please? Don't make me boycott Skyrim. It looks like the bee's knees.
[update 20110928] Apparently the lawsuit is going to happen. I took the liberty of submitting the above message to Bethesda via their contact form. Not that it will do any good, as they've clearly unhinged themselves from reality over there. Idiots.