Interesting tidbit about future book titles

[rainy_lilac at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25223


I believe that they are trademarked by Time Warner.


--Suzanne

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., mellienel2 at y... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., rainy_lilac at y... wrote:
> > I found this at http://www.hpgalleries.com:
> > 
> > Reader Michael Beckett has stumbled upon some very 
> interesting 
> > information in the UK. It seems Time Warner has been 
> registering 
> > trademarks for Harry Potter and in the process, registered 
> what 
> > appear to be new book titles. If you go to the UK Patent Office's 
> > trademark search and type in "Harry Potter" you will come up 
> with 3 
> > very interesting marks - Harry Potter and the Alchemist's Cell, 
> Harry 
> > Potter and the Pyramids of Furmat, and Harry Potter and the 
> Chariots 
> > of Light. Ironically, these were all registered 4/26/2000 - J.K. 
> > Rowling didn't let the title of her next book, "Order of the 
> Phoenix" 
> > slip until last October. So were these just a ruse to throw fans 
> off 
> > track? Or will two of these titles be used for books 6 and 7 ? 
> > 
> > 
> 
> This info was on another list -- HogwartsAdultSchool -- on April 
> 20, 2001. I thought it was a silly rumor then, for I couldn't find 
the 
> source it quoted and it seemed so frivolous. But those names 
> were trademarked on April 26. Either someone saw those 
> names and tm'd them quickly (perhaps the old domain-stealing 
> game), the rumor started because of the trademark, or it's a very 
> suspicious set of coincidences.
> 
> m.