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[OMG IP]

Gotta love Capitalism!

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/disney-trademarks-seal-team-6_b35689

"In a perfect example of a big media company looking to capitalize on current events, The Walt Disney Company has trademarked “Seal Team 6,” which also happens to be the name of the elite special forces team that killed Osama Bin Laden."

[concerned001]

Yes Reports are saying Disney now owns trademark "seal team 6"

I did a search and domain is owned by
Domain Name: SEALTEAM6.COM
Registrar: NAMEKING.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.nameking.com

I own and use a domain using 2 words and filed a trademark application on I think it was Monday of this week.  See comments from "a really simple trademark question".

Can I now also say I own trademark on those two words used in my application even though it could take like a years for it to be granted?

[OMG IP]

Yes Reports are saying Disney now owns trademark "seal team 6"

I did a search and domain is owned by
Domain Name: SEALTEAM6.COM
Registrar: NAMEKING.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.nameking.com

I own and use a domain using 2 words and filed a trademark application on I think it was Monday of this week.  See comments from "a really simple trademark question".

Can I now also say I own trademark on those two words used in my application even though it could take like a years for it to be granted?

Just because "Reports" say Disney owns the mark doesn't mean Disney is saying that.  The media is very often uninformed to correct legal terminology.

More particular to your Q, domain registration and/or trademark registration (applications or otherwise) do not establish trademark ownership.  It is use, and more important, first use, over any others.

[concerned001]

you're correct.  Disney kind of owns it assuming no one else in last 18 months thought to use it for their game or whatever.

At least I have a domain showing my two words, a beginning date of use and a description I filled with application I thought fit how those two words can or should be interpreted.

 I did not pick one or more IC#'s.   An agent is suppose to call me in next 18 months................duh

 

[concerned001]

Disney withdraws bid for SEAL moniker
The entertainment giant has taken heat for its application to trademark 'SEAL Team 6,' the name of the Navy unit that raided Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.

By Meg James, Los Angeles Times

May 26, 2011

Faced with a public relations firestorm, Walt Disney Co. said it had withdrawn its application to trademark the moniker "SEAL Team 6" for use on games, snow globes and TV shows.

Two days after the Navy's elite SEAL Team 6 swooped into Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, killing the Al Qaeda leader, an attorney for the Burbank-based entertainment giant filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for use of the term "SEAL Team 6."

Last week, the Navy countered by filing two trademark applications of its own for the names "Navy SEALS" and "SEAL Team."

On Wednesday, Disney deferred to the Navy.

"Out of deference to the Navy's application for these trademarks, we have withdrawn ours," a Disney spokesman said.

Disney found itself in an increasingly embarrassing position, becoming the fodder for jokes on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and the subject of TV news stories that sought to portray the entertainment company as crass for trying to cash in on the elite unit.

Disney's May 3 application requested the right to use the "SEAL Team 6" on an assortment of products including "gymnastic and sporting articles (except clothing); hand-held units for playing electronic games … Christmas stockings; Christmas tree ornaments and decorations; snow globes."

The company was trying to cover its legal bases after ABC television executives had preliminary discussions about creating a TV series about a Navy unit, said an ABC executive familiar with the network's plans who did not want to be identified discussing internal matters.

The proposed show, similar in nature to the hit CBS series "NCIS" (Naval Criminal Investigative Service), would be based on characters who were members of a Navy SEAL team, the executive said.

The application request went beyond the confines of a TV show and included the types of merchandise that have become Disney hallmarks.

[OMG IP]

GO NAVY!