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I guess the USMC didn't get the memo that government organizations and institutions, including the military, can't patent items bought and paid for with taxpayer funds. It's all public domain, including unit names and logos.

The US government operates under Executive Order 10096 in terms of patent rights, and has done so (in augmented form) since 1950. Section 1 has been unchanged in that time;

1. The following basic policy is established for all Government agencies with respect to inventions hereafter made by any Government employee: (a) The Government shall obtain the entire right, title and interest in and to all inventions made by any Government employee (1) during working hours, or (2) with a contribution by the Government of facilities, equipment, materials, funds, or information, or of time or services of other Government employees on official duty, or (3) which bear a direct relation to or are made in consequence of the official duties of the inventor.

Another damned Executive Order-—it wouldn’t hold up in court under current patent, trademark, and copyright law if anyone ever bothered to challenge it.