[demx]

One day after Osama bin Laden’s body was dumped into the North Arabian Sea, Walt Disney Co. executives smelled opportunity. The Hollywood giant filed three applications to trademark the term “SEAL Team 6,” the name of the elite special forces team that took down the world’s most wanted criminal. Disney wants the exclusive rights to slap the phrase on every product that could possibly make a buck.

The applications are currently pending before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and will be assigned to a USPTO examining attorney in approximately three months. According to the company’s filings, Disney wants to be able to sell “SEAL Team 6” branded toys, games, sporting articles, clothing, shoes, hats, hand-held electronic video games, Christmas stockings, Christmas-tree ornaments and even tacky snow globes.

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Seriously? A day after the event? Disney you crazy. There's not even a book out about the events and they are already applying for the patent. Perhaps when the world ends Disney, Google, and Microsoft will take each other out.

[randall san]

Oh yeah I heard about this on Conan, haha of all places.

[demx]

Must be a mutation caused by acquiring Marvel.

[Darkchao45]

I luled when I saw this on "The Daily Show With John Stewart"
I still lul whenever I hear about it XD

[digritz]

Disney's true colors,
A bunch of dwarfs hooking up with a young girlie in the woods? An uncle taking his nephews camping? Mickey and Minnie hooking up even though they have the same last name yet are not married? Disney's dogs, one has a job, a family, drives a car. The other lives in a wooden house in Mickey's backyard. And now this.

It's about time Disney showed their darker side.

The really messed up part of all this (AND I'M NOT CONDONING OR CRITICIZING THEIR ACTIONS), is it just keeps attention on them and paints a bigger target on the members of Seal Team 6 and their families.

[Conduit]

I don't see the point in making anything out of this, buisness is buisness, you can bet there were atleast half a dozen other major entertain corporations lined up behind Disney to do the exact same thing. This doesn't make Disney evil, it just makes them faster than everyone else.

[ketaro]

They're probably just planning to turn the whole Osama operation into a high school teen angst tv series. Ya know, like everything on the Disney Channel. Barack as student council president! bin Laden as the school bully! Musical numbers EVERYWHERE!!!!

[demx]

I thought Disney was on a dance crew fix, while Nick was on a singing fix.

[Nafanya]

It's a shame you can actually patent something you have absolutely nothing to do with. You know how racing videogames creators have to pay real world manufacturers for the right to use their models? In this case however...