SEAL Team 6 is the elite Navy squad credited with killing Osama bin Laden. One day after the raid, Disney Enterprises, Inc., filed applications with the US. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark the name “SEAL TEAM 6.” The trademark has not yet been granted.
A quick USPTO web search shows three applications (screengrabs below). The applications cover a variety of uses. The first, for “Entertainment and education services.” A second application covers “Toys, games and playthings; gymnastic and sporting articles (except clothing); hand-held units for playing electronic games other than those adapted for use with an external display screen or monitor; Christmas stockings; Christmas tree ornaments and decorations; snow globes.” And a third covers “Clothing, footwear and headwear.”
The USPTO database also shows that a company based in Calabasas called NovaLogic applied in 2002 and 2004 for a “Seal Team 6” mark for electronic games, and was denied.
More in the Orlando Sentinel. Mediabistro also had an item up on this a few days ago. Here’s an Associated Press item.
* Snow globes you say? The things we can’t take beyond TSA checkpoints? Oh, sweet irony.
(via the BB submitterator, thanks miho)
