Posted on 05/25/2011 7:04:39 AM PDT by markomalley
SEAL Team 6 isnt going down without a fight.
The Navy is challenging Disneys attempt to trademark the name of the elite squad responsible for taking out the worlds most wanted terrorist.
On May 3, just two days after Usama bin Laden was killed in a raid on the Al Qaeda leaders Pakistan compound, Disney filed trademark applications to use the name "SEAL Team 6" on everything from entertainment, toys, video games, clothing, footwear -- even Christmas ornaments and snow globes.
Disney's applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filed cover three separate categories of goods and services -- meaning, they don't yet have consumer products but intend to in the future.
But 10 days later, on May 13, the U.S. Navy hit back, filing two applications of its own. The Navy's competing applications sought trademark status for "SEAL Team" posters and clothing, as well as Navy SEAL goods and services, identifying the Navy squad as an organization that develops and executes military missions involving special operations strategy, doctrine and tactics."
Disney has not responded to FoxNews.com's repeated requests for comment.
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That’s bugs bunny.
Bugs Bunny was created by Tex Avery and Chuck Jones for Loonie Tunes and Merry Melodies not Disney.
I’m not sure I’d want to piss off SEAL Team 6...
This story reminds me of an early Batman villain called, ‘The Toyman’.
He copyrighted the alphabet and nobody could use it without his permission.
That’s the way things pretty much already are. The problem here is that there really is no official “SEAL Team Six” but in fact the term has taken a very specific meaning. It’s kind of the inverse effect of ‘Kleenex’ where a specific brand name has become a colloquialism for pretty much any facial tissue. In this case, what started as sort of a nebulous, cold war, false-flag designation, has come to be intimately associated with a very select group, which Disney now wants to trademark.
Reminds of the time that TSR tried to trademark “Nazi” for its Indiana Jones RPG.
Although, in this case, the intentions were a little more deliberate and nefarious.
I see, this makes a bit more sense now. Thanks!
Yes and he and Robert Stanford Tuck, the British ace became close friends after the war. My husband, a retired aviator, and I met Adolph Galland at aviation dinners. When asked what plane he would prefer to fly, he did not endear himself to his leader when he said the Spitfire.
I remember reading that in Galland’s book.
He then explained that he said it just to irritate Goering. As a matter of fact he said he thought the BF-109 was really just as good as the Spitfire.
Except that they are getting a ton of bad press, and some of us will protest to the PTO.
Disney losses even if they get the trademark.
I heard of a fellow a number of years ago who does exactly that with Song of the South (after unsuccessfully trying to buy a legal copy) and made it available to anyone who wants it.
“Do you know who designed the Flying Tigers logo”
Many of the nose art designes were done by Disney artist as well as those working for other studios as well. But that was in a day when the military was not looked at as the enemy, as in today’s Hollywood.
I didn’t say it was a good idea, just explaining why they were doing it that way. They hate it when someone uses “their intellectual properties” like Cinderella or Snow White.
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