Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/14/mse-media-llc.html
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Now we get to see if anyone at the USPTO exhibits any signs of higher brain functions.
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Seems like the hundreds of Welsh, English, German and Scandinavian stories of famous dragon slayers would be prior art. Or will I we need to put some warnings in the The Prose Edda?
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Why stop at “Dragon Slayer”? Why not trademark both “dragon” and “slayer,” too? Why not trademark dragons and the concept of slaying?
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Christ, what a late stage capitalism!
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Sorry, you’ll need to get past my pending trademark of the words ‘A’ and ‘I’, plus the interjection ‘O’ first.
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Indeed, why stop there?
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This kind of shit is exactly why I left the USPTO in disgust after only one year as a patent examiner.
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Came here for this, because it’s a co-production with Disney. I have a hard time believing this trademark will gain any traction because of Disney. (Unless Disney then buys the trademark, because Disney.)
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Classic late stage capitalist move. Will happen.
(They will oppose it and if they lose they will buy it.)
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Totally love this movie, it’s pretty damn awesome.
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Didn’t GW recently try to claim a trademark on “Space Marine”?
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Still my favorite movie dragon. Watched it about a year ago and the special effects are fresh air to the stale CGI we have now.
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I would love to see someone make a movie similar to this, or Krull. Damn i love Krull, it’s borderline cheesy and bad but you don’t really see movies doing both full blown fantasy AND sci-fi.
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Holy hell this is amazing (cockybot, not tm trolls) and this is my fave so far…
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I suspect they tried. Personally, the fact that GW has absolute conniptions if anyone tries to use the words “WarHammer™” and “40,000™” with a single space between them and goes all turbo lawyer on them, has me a bit reluctant to purchase any of the stuff they sell.
(that, and from what I hear, building a proper army costs quite a bit of money and many, many hours with a super fine paintbrush, which is a skill I do not possess.)
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(and yes, the “™” symbols after the two words were sarcasm, and parody. I’m still guaranteed the right of parody under the first amendment, which GW’s lawyers obviously need to re-read…)
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