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[dr_worm]

Is there some website where you can check if something's trademarked and by whom?

[bewarethanatos]

[DougBThree]

[InAFieldofClover]

I have a background in law, I can address the Cloverfield thing.

It's a very, very valid point to bring up. The movie studio would, by nature, common sense and foresight, trademark the name of a film produced by someone who has the ability to put tons of asses in movie theater seats. If I was Paramount, I would've registered "Cloverfield" even if it was a fake title. Doesn't take much effort. But, yes, the title of a film would 9 times out of 10 be trademarked by a huge, multi-million dollar movie studio.

It isn't about claiming the rights to a name so no one else can use it. If a movie called "Lost" came out tomorrow that had nothing to do with the show, wasn't a blatant rip-off and didn't step on any toes, that'd be fine. But if a movie studio doesn't copyright the name of a potential franchise, it really has no rights over the franchise at all except for that one movie. And once that's been out on DVD for a few months, how further could you push it? What if Abrams wanted to take the franchise to Miramax? He'd be able to, if Paramount didn't own the rights to the franchise, and owning the rights to the name would be the first step they'd take in that process.

Simply put, "Cloverfield" would be registered because "Cloverfield" is a potential box office blockbuster that could unravel into a very lucrative movie franchise. Then again, they could just be holding off because they can. No one's seen the movie. No one knows the title. It hasn't yet proved itself to be more than internet hype. They have time to kill. But we're almost at the 60 day mark here, and Paramount would either own the copyright to the movie's title or it'd be pending. It could be pending. I'd keep an eye on that site.

[Siffblu]

[Nighthawk]

I've once again done a thorough search through the trademark site, and haven't found anything. On a side note, dear God they have a billion Star Trek related trademarks. Heck, the even have lesser character names trademarked!

By now they should have (1) the movie name, and (2) the creature's name, if it has one.

[Euchre]

[Eddy]

FWIW: I occasionally check the in game but otherwise dead sites, one being http://www.cloverfieldmovie.com/.

So far (although I wasn't really keeping track) it was a blank page, then it forwarded to paramount, then it was unavailable, then it forwarded to paramount again...

Today I checked it, and it's a blank page again. However, it's titled "Untitled".

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[MrToasty]

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