Dummy trademarks by Warner Brothers (was Re: Copyright infringement question

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> Carol asked me to post this when I found it.
> 
> The place where the discussion about Warner Brothers and trademarks 
> for dummy movie names, etc. to throw people off the real one was a 
> discussion at Mugglenet. It was in one of the notes of their podcast 
> #45.
> 
> Here is how to find all of the dead titles that WB filed a trademark 
> for and then abandoned when the real title was announced.
> 
> Go to this page and push on the first link for 'New User Form Search 
> Basic' and type in: Harry Potter and the  
> 
> and you will see them all.
> 
> http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=bdnpt7.1.1
> 
> Tonks_op
>
Carol responds:

Thanks, Tonks. That link has expired, but I found the fake titles by
going to the main page, http://tess2.uspto.gov/ , clicking Trademarks,
and, IIRC, clicking Search. I printed the page for future reference.
Too bad we didn't get "Harry Potter and the Mudblood Revolt," but, of
course, JKR wouldn't have used that phrase. I also liked "Harry Potter
and the Hogwarts Hallows," which is nicely alliterative and would have
given us more of dear old Hogwarts.

I also did a search (I forget from what page) to see a list of
trademarks registered to Warner Bros. Oddly, Ron Weasley, Scabbers,
Gilderoy Lockhart, Hogwarts, and a few other names were listed, but
most of the characters, including Severus Snape and Voldemort, were not.

Carol, as ever puzzled by the workings of government and big business