Walt Disney Company Halts Plans To Trademark ‘SEAL Team 6′

by Jon Bershad | 11:58 am, May 26th, 2011

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Bummer, folks. Looks like your kids won’t be bringing their “Guy Who Killed Osama bin Laden” lunch boxes to school this fall after all. Just in time for Memorial Day, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Walt Disney Company has withdrawn their application to trademark the phrase “SEAL Team 6″ for use on “clothing, footwear, headwear, toys, games and ‘entertainment and education services,’” and more. And I was really looking forward to those education services.

So why has Disney backed down? I mean, besides having the entire country mock them for embarking on a ridiculously cynical and offensive cash grab? Well, a spokesman says that they did it “out of deference to the Navy.” Yeah, I wouldn’t want to piss off guys who can helicopter in, shoot you in the face, and vanish all in a period of 10 minutes either.

The Navy had responded to Disney’s claim by sending in their own trademark applications for the terms “SEAL Team” and “Navy SEALs” a few days after Disney sent in theirs. We can only assume the Navy applications were merely blank pages with the words “Come on. Seriously?” printed on them.

So, gang, let us know; which Disney licensed SEAL Team 6 product are you going to miss the most?

SEAL Team 6, The Walt Disney Company

A.R.

good article
Nobodys_Stooge

I’ve already trademarked “VEAL Team 6″. Its about an elite squad of baby calves who bust out of a slaughter house and hunt down Ronald McDonald.
Jayson

Nice to see the power of the people still works.
Nacho

More Big Government strong arming scared of a successful business.
Universaltruth

By all means let’s turn real-life heroes into cartoon and action figures – America will be the better for it!

But, I’ve got Disney beat. I’m trademarking “Yes,” “No,” and “Maybe.”
Snidely

Helicopter in a team? Kid stuff! The Navy can set a submarine off Key West or in the Gulf of Mexico and send a cruise missile into a specific window in Orlando.
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