Disney Surrenders To The Navy & Gives Up Trademark Application For Seal Team 6

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A couple of  weeks ago we wrote about Disney applying for a trademark on the term Seal Team 6 just days after the raid led by the Seals led to the killing of Bin Laden.

Today comes the news courtesy of FoxNews.com that Disney has withdrawn its multiple trademark applications on the term Seal Team 6.

The Navy spokeswoman Amanda Greenberg is quoted as saying:

“The Navy is committed to fully protecting our trademark rights as it pertains to this matter and will continue to examine all our legal options,”  adding that the military continues to broaden Navy’s existing portfolio.”

Of course there is still the issue of the Navy Seals trademark and the domain navyseals.com.

 

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Comments

  1. Slate says

    I thought the Navy was part of the Government. Can the Government even hold trademarks?
    Since we all know the Government makes exactly ZERO dollars and ZERO cents and every single dollar that the Government spends is tax payer dollars and in whole the Government is owned by the people (even though some of us do not understand that).
    So in my opinion the Government can not hold a trademark because it is not a business or entity that needs to distinguish its self from others. It has no standing from losses because it has no equity or monetary funds of its own. It is all tax payer funded.

    Then add in the fact that NavySeals.com was purchased before any attempts or claims to trademark issues ever arose.
    I personally do NOT think (as long as there is not a liberal activist judge seated) NavySeals.com would have any problem with trademark issues.

    Just my opinion
    Cheers

  2. ivhdotcom says

    This year in the month of April (approximately 1 week before Bin Laden was killed) our company was in contact with both the US Navy and their primary advertising firm Campbell Ewald via phone and email.

    Since we have a long term broker contract to represent the owner of NavySeals.com in a sale we contacted them with detailed website stats and related keyword search info.

    At that time neither party were interested in pursuing an acquisition of the NavySeals.com domain name and website and quite frankly dismissed the notion of a purchase as not important. Neither party even asked the question “How much?”

  3. BullS says

    @ivhdotcom

    You know why they are not interested…because they know you can’t use it to the potential…

    They have that branding power.