I hope this is the case, not that Disney won’t try its utmost to pettifog the issue. Why, though, was the previous registration granted for “Seal team 6” (that ended up never being used and abandoned)? Was it just ignorance on part of the USPTO? You’d think the Pentagon would have noticed and complained.
I’m just not very happy about the Mouse company any more. Not just for its role in extending the term of corporate copyrights to ridiculous lengths outlasting several generations, but one of its Nashville-based subsidiaries weaseled out of honoring a contract in the subsidiary’s name to a friend for purchasing a song. When the friend showed up, he was told “oh, that person doesn’t work here any more.” Now if my friend had a lot of dough he would sue, but what do ya do about small-time shafts like this?
It depends. In some states, if it’s considered consumer fraud, the attorney general goes to work.