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WWE FILES TRADEMARKS FOR WARGAMES AND MORE

By Mike Johnson & Steven Fernandes on 2019-11-23 14:33:00

On 11/19, WWE applied to trademark War Games for "G & S: Entertainment services, namely, a show about professional wrestling; entertainment services, namely, the production and exhibition of professional wrestling events rendered live and through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing wrestling news and information through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing information in the fields of sports and entertainment through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing a website in the field of sports entertainment information"

MLW have two trademark applications for War Games which, according to the USPTO website, are currently suspended. 

As PWInsider.com reported back in February, World Wrestling Entertainment came to terms to acquire the rights and trademarks for the Wargames match from Major League Wrestling.  When WWE opted to revive the old NWA/WCW Wargames match concept for the NXT brand in November 2017, they learned they could not actually trademark the name, as MLW had already done so.  During the promotion's initial run, MLW used the Wargames name and concept in 2003 featuring Terry Funk leading a team against Steve Corino's team in Fort Lauderdale.  When MLW relaunched in 2007, they filed a trademark for War Games name, as they could lay claim to using it back in 2003 and there was no active trademark for it.  Their plan was to use the match once a year as a major gimmick event, as they did in September 2018, back in Fort Lauderdale.  This led to WWE scrambling and filing trademarks on a number of old WCW TV and PPV titles, including Monday Nitro, WCW Saturday Night and Fall Brawl, among others.  With WWE using the Wargames name for the second time late last year for NXT, several WWE sources confirmed that they reached out to MLW and worked out a deal, acquiring it several months before PWInsider.com broke the story.  MLW has since begun doing a "War Chamber" match concept.

WWE also applied to trademark WWE Crown Jewel on 11/19 for "G & S: Production and exhibition of professional wrestling events; providing information in the fields of professional wrestling through broadcast media"

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