{"id":112781,"date":"2022-04-05T18:19:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T23:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=112781"},"modified":"2022-04-05T18:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T23:19:49","slug":"saul-zaentz-co-trademarks-terms-covering-the-rings-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2022\/04\/05\/112781-saul-zaentz-co-trademarks-terms-covering-the-rings-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Saul Zaentz Co. trademarks terms covering The Rings of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zaentz.com\/\">Saul Zaentz Co<\/a>., has filed two trademark applications covering a pair of phrases now associated with Amazon&#8217;s forthcoming TV series: &#8220;Rings of Power&#8221; and &#8220;The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company is the current owner of exclusive worldwide rights to motion picture, merchandising, stage and other rights in certain literary works of J.R.R. Tolkien including <em>The Lord of the Rings <\/em>and<em> The Hobbit<\/em>. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2022\/02\/09\/112082-saul-zaentz-co-to-sell-its-tolkien-rights-holdings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also announced in early February<\/a> that it was putting all those rights up for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trademark applications, which were filed with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on April 5 through German intellectual property specialists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boehmert.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Boehmert &amp; Boehmert<\/a>, cover a wide array merchandising for goods and services under different categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1019\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/rop-filing-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112791 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/rop-filing-1.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/rop-filing-1-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/rop-filing-1-768x662.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/rop-filing-1-186x160.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1019px) 100vw, 1019px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/euipo.europa.eu\/eSearch\/#details\/trademarks\/018681840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The EUIPO filing<\/a> on &#8220;The Rings of Power&#8221;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Closer examination of the two filings, however, reveal that the key crossover between the two seems to cover electronic downloadable and online games and trading cards under Nice categories #9 and #41. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether that indicates that a Rings of Power-associated video game might be in the works as part of some partnership with Amazon remains to be seen. But, since the Saul Zaentz Company holds in perpetuity the trademarks on all the characters and places in the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, it might have to be involved in merchandising deals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/lotrrop-filing-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112789 no-lazyload\" width=\"840\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/lotrrop-filing-1.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/lotrrop-filing-1-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/lotrrop-filing-1-768x692.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/lotrrop-filing-1-178x160.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/euipo.europa.eu\/eSearch\/#details\/trademarks\/018681839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The EUIPO filing<\/a> on &#8220;The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power&#8221;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The news of the filing first emerged on the Reddit forum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/LeaksAndRumors\/comments\/twukyb\/the_saul_zaentz_company_files_two_trademarks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leaks and Rumours<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saul Zaentz Co., has filed two trademark applications covering a pair of phrases now associated with Amazon&#8217;s forthcoming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":112793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3127,22,3769,18,90,498,3734,1700],"tags":[3123,3803,3804,1167,3805,3731,698,3726],"class_list":["post-112781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazon-studios","category-headlines","category-lotr-on-prime","category-merchandise","category-merchandise-other","category-production-studios","category-the-rings-of-power","category-video-games","tag-amazon-middle-earth-tv-series-amazon-lord-of-the-rings-series","tag-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power","tag-merchandising","tag-middle-earth-enterprises","tag-rights","tag-rings-of-power","tag-saul-zaentz-company","tag-the-rings-of-power"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/saul-zaentz-company-Logo-Block.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-tl3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112781"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112794,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112781\/revisions\/112794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}