2 days after OBL killing, Disney trademarked 'SEAL Team 6', Navy is fighting back

[Liberal_in_LA]

Navy Fights Mickey Mouse for SEALs Trademark

SEAL Team 6 isn’t going down without a fight.

The Navy is challenging Disney’s attempt to trademark the name of the elite squad responsible for taking out the world’s most wanted terrorist.

On May 3, just two days after Usama bin Laden was killed in a raid on the Al Qaeda leader’s 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."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/25/navy-seals-fights-mickey-mouse-trademark/#ixzz1NPog6kQ7

[theHandpuppet]

1. I hope the Navy wins this one

Sheesh, how low can Disney get?

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. me too. Glad navy is fighting back.

[Bubba Kush]

19. We just bought our last Disney item.

My son is getting bored of Mickey Mouse (thank Goodness) and getting into Blue Clue's and Thomas & Friends (he's crazy about them). He loves to read and asks me to read him books. His favorite is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom ABC and the 123 books (both). He even has the DVD of Blue Clue's Alphabet Power which has that book come out on view (I know CCBB has a DVD of its own!).

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Snow globes? Christmas ornaments??

OMFG.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. lol. yep. Cartoons for the kids

[Shagbark Hickory]

3. That could be a problem if the actual navy got sued by disney for printing uniforms/apparel with

their trademark on it.

This is rather disturbing on a number of levels. Disney ought to be ashamed of themselves.

[theHandpuppet]

7. Of course they SHOULD be ashamed of themselves

But greed wins out. Totally shameless and disgusting.

[NYC_SKP]

4. Damn things ought to be public domain and not eligible to trademark protection.

Fuck Disney.

Fuck them all to shit and hell.

x(

[Abq_Sarah]

8. Update

Disney has withdrawn their application.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jPs3m4oRxmimKqpdolyWrKsidXZQ?docId=254436ba7bf94b53ba50877c04ecdee3

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. whoo hooo!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Good. That was just ridiculous.

Somebody in their legal department needs an ass-kicking.

Snow globes. Christmas ornaments. :eyes:

Can you imagine a SEAL Team 6™ fucking snow globe? A couple of little SEAL figurines holding rifles and a little dead Osama bin Laden figurine with the top of its little plastic head shot off, and plastic blood all over, all surrounded by gently-falling snowflakes. It's almost too bad Disney is withdrawing its application because I'd love to have something as deranged and insane as a SEAL Team 6™ snow globe.

[KansDem]

10. Disney should trademark "STEAL Team 6"

I think they should graciously "give back" the "SEAL" name to the Navy.

And if I were Disney, I wouldn't be picking fights with organizations that maintain highly-trained commandos...

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

12. Come on, doesn't anyone want to see the next Disney Movie where

Micky leads the SEAL team into Pakistan to kick OBL's ass?

Goofy could be the reason the chopper had a hard landing,

Pluto could sniff the guy out

Donald could do something


Surely someone else has thought about it. They could make it 3-D!









(for those that can't tell, I'm trying to be funny)

[Angry Dragon]

13. THe name Seal Team Six was developed by the Navy

Is Disney going to the Navy for the use of that name.
The American people own the Navy
Sounds like to me that Disney is trying to steal the name
Disney should be arrested for attempted theft
Throw their ass in jail until this settled

edit to add: It is like copy-writing Army, Navy, Air Force, The United States of America
I claim those for myself

[AsahinaKimi]

15. How about this...

Let the SEALS storm Disneyland in Anaheim, that would be a show paying customers would never forget. (KIDDING!!)

:hide:

[arcane1]

16. Hell, that might even entice me to actually go to Disneyland for the first time :)

[Kievan Rus]

14. Walt Disney would be utterly ashamed what became of the company bearing his name

[Nailzberg]

17. Disney dropped this.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b244074_disney_drops_bid_trademark_name_of.html

[aquart]

18. If Disney want a SEAL doll let them pay us the licensing fee.

This was bloody THEFT. Oh, and if they get the trademark, CHANGE THE NAME. I'm sure we can find a sexy, manly, virile acronym that will do as well or better.