Trademark Overview
On Monday, May 9, 2005, a trademark application was filed for THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The USPTO has given the THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE trademark a serial number of 78625399. The federal status of this trademark filing is ABANDONED - FAILURE TO RESPOND OR LATE RESPONSE as of Thursday, April 20, 2006. This trademark is owned by The Saul Zaentz Company dba Tolkien Enterprises. The THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE trademark is filed in the Computer & Software Products & Electrical & Scientific Products, Paper & Printed Material Products, and Education & Entertainment Services categories with the following description:
Scientific, nautical, surveying, electric, photographic, cinematographic, optical, weighing, measuring, signaling, checking (supervision), life-saving and teaching apparatus and instruments; apparatus for recording, transmission or reproduction of sound or images; magnetic data carriers, recording discs; automatic vending machines and mechanisms for coin-operated apparatus; cash registers, calculating machines, data processing equipment and computers; fire-extinguishing apparatus; electronic game programs; electronic game software; electronic game cartridges; electronic game discs; video game cartridges; video games discs; video game programs; video game software, computer software that permits multiplayer computer games manufactured by others to be played interactively over a global computer network; pre-paid, magnetically encoded cards for playing video games, computer games and on-line interactive games
Paper, cardboard and goods made from theses materials, not included in other classes; printed matter; bookbinding material; photographs; stationery; adhesives for stationery or household purposes; artists' materials; paint brushes; typewriters and office requisites (except furniture); instructional and teaching material (except apparatus); plastic materials for packaging (not included in other classes); printers' type; printing blocks; instruction manuals, guides and other printed matter used in association with computer games and multiplayer interactive games; pre-paid, non-magnetically encoded cards for playing video games, computer games and on-line interactive games
Educational and entertainment services, content management system for communities of people that play massively multiplayer online games; providing interactive online computer games via the worldwide web, providing information about online computer games and video games via the worldwide web, arranging and conducting competitions for video gamers and computer game players, multiplayer interactive games provided over the worldwide web, tracking the status of various users of online interactive gaming services and matching online game players with other players of similar skill levels, arranging online competitions for interactive game players, providing on-line chat rooms or interactive discussion forums for transmission of messages among the participants of multiplayer, computer games and activities, computer programs for use in connection with multiplayer interactive games played over the internet; and computer programs for use in tracking the status of various users of online interac...
