Book Six Titles

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 78966

Phlux:" On July 24th a company by the name of "Seabottom Productions 
Limited" registered two trademarks by the names of "Harry Potter and 
the Mudblood Revolt" and "Harry Potter and the Quest of the Centaur".
This company must be related to WB, since the HP trademark  is now
their property.
 
I'm sure everyone has heard of the other book titles like "Harry 
Potter and the Alchemist's Cell", "Harry Potter and the Pyramids of 
Furmat", or "Harry Potter and the Chariots of Light", which were all 
patented just before the release of GoF, in 2000."

No way.  An attempt to copyright any title in the form of "Harry
Potter and.. would be null and void, unenforceable. J.K. Rowling and
Warner Brothers, her assignee, would be the only parties who could do
that. "Harry Potter" itself is a trademark, and nothing that tried to
circumvent that trademark by adding something to it would have any
validity at all.

A Google search on "Seabottom Productions" turns up nothing outside of
undersea exploration and so on. A Web search of the Patent and
Trademark Office shows nothing.

How would anybody think that this could possibly be true?  JKR and
Warner Brothers have all the rights to anything Harry Potter, period.
Nobody else can use that name or anything based on it for any
commercial purpose without WB's consent ($$$).  This group exists
under its name because discussion of literature and characters is
'fair use' and free speech and doesn't create confusion in the
marketplace.  Even so, WB tried to muscle in on HP websites and backed
off only because they got bad press.

Jim Ferer