How Do I Register A Book Title

Ane of the most common questions about trademarks I answer on a daily basis is if ane can trademark a book title or not.

The curt reply is this: You cannot trademark the name of a unmarried creative work. For example, if you write one, individual book called "I Dearest TRADEMARKS," then you volition not exist able to trademark this title.

However, yous can trademark a book title if you write a series of books using that title. In the example above, the proper name "I LOVE TRADEMARKS" could exist trademarked if you wrote more than than one book with that title, since it would no longer be considered a "unmarried" artistic work.

Examples of these Trademarks

Series of books that accept a mutual proper noun throughout the series can be trademarked. Let's await at a few examples.

Harry Potter

The wildly successful Harry Potter franchise has, at the time of this writing, 54 live trademarks. These include everything from books and movies to video games and amusement parks.

However, if there was only a single book titled "Harry Potter", information technology is unlikely these trademarks would be. It is because of the fact that the books and movies are a series in which all titles contain "Harry Potter" that make this protection possible.

In this instance in particular, because of its massive popularity, the protections are needed given the likelihood of someone creating and marketing unauthorized merchandise in an effort to cash in on peoples beloved of the series.

Goosebumps

Another popular children's book series that has been able to successfully attain trademark protection is the Goosebumps franchise, which is at present endemic past Scholastic. The series and all of its spinoffs total to, at the time of this writing, 195 books. That doesn't include the audiobooks, toys, or the 2015 movie starring Jack Black (though, the original author Robert Lawrence Stine seemingly had no part in the moving picture's creation or production.)

All told, the mark is protected across 13 different goods and services categories, with the original trademark application having been filed on October 18, 1993 and awarded on Jan three, 1995.

As with Harry Potter, information technology'south the fact that Goosebumps is a series of works that allows it to receive trademark protection.

The Trademark Procedure