{"id":408,"date":"2020-08-04T20:55:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T00:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.waltercounsel.com\/blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2025-11-08T15:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:29:01","slug":"space-force-trademark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Space Force Trademark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/defiant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-543\" style=\"width:120px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. military apparently needs an intellectual property lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the United States Space Force, the newest branch of the U.S. armed forces was announced two years ago, no one bothered to register the trademark. Well, that\u2019s not quite accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. did apply to use the name \u2018Space Force\u2019 on clothing, two months after Netflix greenlighted its Space Force series and applied for a trademark for the name. Netflix reportedly has already secured trademark rights in Europe, Australia, and parts of North America for \u2018Space Force\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" src=\"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/defiant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/spaceforces72.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4611\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. military and Netflix can probably share the name without a hitch. After all, they clearly operate in different areas. However, should Netflix decide to sell Space Force swag, the U.S. will probably not be able to stop it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And let\u2019s not get started with the Starfleet logo. That\u2019s a whole different kettle of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startrek.com\/database_article\/gagh\">gagh<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Alan N. Walter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military apparently needs an intellectual property lawyer. Although the United States Space Force, the newest branch of the U.S. armed forces was announced two years ago, no one bothered to register the trademark. Well, that\u2019s not quite accurate. The U.S. did apply to use the name \u2018Space Force\u2019 on clothing, two months after &#8230; <a title=\"Space Force Trademark\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/?p=408\" aria-label=\"Read more about Space Force Trademark\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,11,43,191],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-intellectual-property","category-pop-culture","category-science-fiction","tag-trademark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4612,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/4612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}