{"id":997,"date":"2025-10-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/?p=997"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:34:17","slug":"nintendos-trademarking-virtual-console-again-but-dont-get-your-hopes-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/nintendos-trademarking-virtual-console-again-but-dont-get-your-hopes-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#039;s Trademarking &#039;Virtual Console&#039; Again, But Don&#039;t Get Your Hopes Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Virtual dreams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to talk trademarks again, as Nintendo of America has had a new filing for &#8216;Virtual Console&#8217; bumped up to the pending phase. But let&#8217;s be clear right from the jump, it <em>probably<\/em> doesn&#8217;t mean what you&#8217;re thinking.<\/p>\n<p>As brought to our attention by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeOdysseyYT\">@MikeOdysseyYT<\/a> on X, the <a href=\"https:\/\/tsdr.uspto.gov\/#caseNumber=79425775&amp;caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&amp;caseType=DEFAULT&amp;searchType=statusSearch\">trademark<\/a> was initially submitted on 21st April 2025, and got boosted up to the pending phase last week on 17th October. The application pertains to two different goods and services classes: IC 009 for &#8220;Recorded electronic game programs; downloadable electronic game programs; recorded video game programs&#8221; and the like, and IC 041 for &#8220;Providing non-downloadable online electronic publications, namely online journals and interactive online blogs featuring user generated or specified content in the field of video games and online publications in the nature of e-books in the field of video games&#8221; amongst other things.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/10\/nintendos-trademarking-virtual-console-again-but-dont-get-your-hopes-up\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual dreams. It&#8217;s time to talk trademarks again, as Nintendo of America has had a new filing for &#8216;Virtual Console&#8217; bumped up to the pending phase. But let&#8217;s be clear right from the jump, it probably doesn&#8217;t mean what you&#8217;re thinking. As brought to our attention by @MikeOdysseyYT on X, the trademark was initially submitted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}