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Napoleon Dynamite 2?


Looks like Twentieth Century Fox is getting ready to do a sequel to Napoleon Dynamite.

What the heck are you even talking about?

A few days ago they filed an “intent to use” trademark registration application for “Napoleon Dynamite” and described the goods as “a series of motion picture films featuring comedy.”

Movie titles that are not part of a series are not eligible for trademark registration because single-work titles are merely descriptive. The germinal case is In re Cooper, 254 F2d 611 (1958).

Merely descriptive marks lack the distinctiveness required to register a trademark.



posted on Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 9:58 am and is filed under 2010-may, film, trademarks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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