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by Beldin 1325 days ago
Perhaps, under US law. If the creator felt confident about that and only intended to sell this game in the USA, then perhaps a lawsuit could be worth it.

Then again, the "parody" defense may require something more than "the setting is obviously a take on this trademark", something sufficient to label it "transformative". No clue what the legal standard for that is.

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> then perhaps a lawsuit could be worth it.

Even in US law, no, there's no scenario wherein the lawsuit against IKEA would be worth ~$50k in revenue (not profit).