[00:00:02] Speaker A: Ramping up your business. The time is near. You've given it heart, now get it in gear. It's Passage to Profit with Richard and Elizabeth Gearhart.
[00:00:12] Speaker B: I'm Richard Gearhart, founder of Gearhart Law, a full service intellectual property law firm specializing in patents, trademarks and copyrights.
[00:00:20] Speaker C: And I'm Elizabeth Gearhart, not an attorney, but I do marketing for Gearhart Law and I have my own startups and podcasts.
[00:00:26] Speaker D: Welcome to Passage to Profit, the road to Entrepreneurship, where we talk with entrepreneurs and celebrities who tell their stories about.
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[00:00:38] Speaker C: Did you know that 2 in 5Americans want to start a new business or are business owners? Well, we have lots of information to help them too.
[00:00:46] Speaker B: And we also talk a little about.
[00:00:48] Speaker D: The intellectual property that helps them flourish. Right now, it's the intellectual property news segment.
[00:00:54] Speaker B: Is it possible for a government to.
[00:00:56] Speaker D: Deny your passport because of your name?
[00:00:59] Speaker C: In Britain, yes. A family named their son Loki Skywalker Mowbray because he was born on May 4, 2017 and formerly known as Star Wars Day. But when they went to get him a passport, the passport office in Britain said, that name is copyrighted. I'm sorry, your son can't have a passport. You have to ask Disney.
[00:01:20] Speaker D: So they actually told them that they have to contact Disney to get their permission.
[00:01:25] Speaker C: So they eventually worked it out. So the child was able to get a passport.
[00:01:28] Speaker D: Well, I just want to say, just for the record, that the UK Passport office is completely screwed up because you can't get a copyright on a name. You can get a trademark on your name, but a trademark is only good.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: For certain types of content.
[00:01:42] Speaker D: You can't get a trademark for every single use of the name. I'd like to go around the table and ask our distinguished guests, what do you about this whole situation, Jerry? It just seems kind of absurd to me. It's ridiculous.
[00:01:56] Speaker E: John, what brings to my mind is who's the villain in this case? Is it the government, Is it the big corporation? Or is it the trademark attorneys? Because there's clearly a villain.
[00:02:07] Speaker D: Well, couldn't possibly be the trademark attorney.
[00:02:10] Speaker E: It's clearly three villains in this story. That's what brings to my mind.
[00:02:13] Speaker B: Nadia.
[00:02:14] Speaker F: It's actually interesting. Yeah, I would not want to deal with Disney on these things. Who has time for that?
[00:02:18] Speaker D: Yeah, well, you know, this trend could spread. Maybe governments don people naming their kids after celebrities.
[00:02:25] Speaker B: Right.
[00:02:25] Speaker D: You never know what's going to happen.
[00:02:27] Speaker B: Passage to Profit is a nationally syndicated radio show appearing in 38 markets across the United States.
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[00:02:43] Speaker B: Thank you to the P2P team, our producer Noah Fleischman and our program coordinator Alicia Morrissey and Rishiket Busari. Look for our podcast tomorrow anywhere you get your podcasts. Our podcast is ranked in the top 3% globally.
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