Nintendo trademark a deity

[Smashchu2]

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Smashchu2 said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

HappySqurriel said:

KungKras said:

Who on eath trademarks a god? O_o

Someone who plans to make a product that uses that name ...

You can trade mark just about anything as long as the scope is limited enough, and trademarks are generally weak enough that all they prevent people from doing is making obvious copies of your product with very similar names.

Now, I wonder what Nintendo plans to do with this trademark being that I don't think that it is a particularly good "name" to use in English speaking countries. To me this means that it will be a subtitle to another product, a product only released in Japan, or a product that most English speakers aren't sure how to pronounce.

This! Just trademarking her is terribly short-sighted: I'll patent (and come on, trademark too, since I'm at it) Allah! 1 billion Muslims will have to pay me five times a day!  BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!   

Somebody suggested Jesus: poor choice, most Christians pray just once a week or even less...   

I got also a  cool slogan ready: "NO PAY, NO HEAVEN, NO VIRGINS".  O-) 

You can't use common used phrases. This is why Donald Trump couldn't copyright "You're Fired!"

You can register a book called "Allah," and then no one can sell a book titled "Allah."

I count on USPTO legendary sloppiness about checking filings admissibility!   

But Japan patent office must have different rules from USA anyway, because Amaterasu is a common used word amongst the Japanese as much as Allah is amongst Muslims...

That's what your missing: Amaterasu is being used as the title of the game. It's not like Nintendo gets money when ever you use Amaterasu. It just stops someone else making a game called "Amaterasu."