{"id":38791,"date":"2024-10-23T11:56:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T02:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=38791"},"modified":"2024-10-23T11:56:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T02:56:07","slug":"nintendo-applies-for-new-trademarks-related-to-animal-crossing-super-smash-bros-and-other-ips-in-food-and-accommodation-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/nintendo-applies-for-new-trademarks-related-to-animal-crossing-super-smash-bros-and-other-ips-in-food-and-accommodation-category\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo applies for new trademarks related to Animal Crossing, Super Smash Bros. and other IPs in \u201cfood and accommodation&#8221; category\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the Japan Patent Office\u2019s public bulletin, Nintendo filed new trademark applications for several of their IPs on October 11 (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/2410\/22\/news185.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ITmedia)<\/a>. Since the applications were made public, Nintendo fans in Japan have been taking wild guesses as to what these could be for, especially given that the trademarks were not filed for products like game software, but services related to providing food and accommodation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3093\u2026\u2026\uff1f\u3093\u2026\u2026\uff1f<br><br>\u4efb\u5929\u5802\u304c\u3053\u306e\u30bf\u30a4\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u3067\u300c\u3042\u3064\u3082\u308a\u300d\u3092\u5546\u6a19\u767b\u9332\u2026\u2026\uff1f\u3057\u304b\u3082\u7528\u9014\u304c\u300c\u98f2\u98df\u30fb\u5bbf\u6cca\u300d\u2026\u2026\uff1f\u4f55\u304c\u59cb\u307e\u308b\u3093\u3067\u3059\u2026\u2026\uff1f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ndMnZAQ8jX\">https:\/\/t.co\/ndMnZAQ8jX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u30ec\u30a6\u30f3 (@R_GameTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/R_GameTV\/status\/1848661506986229833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Oh? Huh? Nintendo has applied for an Animal Crossing: New Horizons trademark at this timing? And the purpose is \u201cfood and accommodation\u201d? What\u2019s about to start here&#8230;<\/em>\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 10 trademark applications were made for Animal Crossing, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Pikmin, Super Smash Bros., and Splatoon. This includes the game titles themselves, as well as their abbreviations and logos. The trademarks were filed under Class 43, which includes services such as providing hotel accommodation, food and beverages.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"996\" height=\"499\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241023-38791.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo trademarks\" class=\"wp-image-38794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241023-38791.jpg 996w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241023-38791-380x190.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241023-38791-768x385.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"991\" height=\"494\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 991px) 100vw, 991px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241023-38791-002.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo trademarks\" class=\"wp-image-38795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241023-38791-002.jpg 991w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241023-38791-002-380x189.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241023-38791-002-768x383.jpg 768w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Images via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">J-PlatPlat<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the recent opening of the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto and its game-themed Hatena Burger restaurant, Nintendo fans are theorizing that the company may be planning to launch something along the lines of concept hotels and concept cafes\/restaurants related to their IPs. Needless to say, there is now a bunch of people obsessed with the idea of a real-life Animal Crossing hotel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopes and speculations aside, Nintendo have on multiple occasions talked about their efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/pdf\/2023\/231109e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expand their IPs\u2019 reach beyond video games<\/a>, and the results of this have included &nbsp;theme parks and the Nintendo Museum. Although nothing has been confirmed yet, their latest series of trademarks could be related to further initiatives in this vein.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has applied for 10 new trademarks related to Animal Crossing, Pikmin, Splatoon and Super Smash Bros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":38797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,33],"class_list":["post-38791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news","tag-nintendo"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nintendo applies for new trademarks related to Animal Crossing, Super Smash Bros. and other IPs in \u201cfood and accommodation&quot; category\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nintendo has applied for 10 new trademarks related to Animal Crossing, Pikmin, Splatoon and Super Smash Bros.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/nintendo-applies-for-new-trademarks-related-to-animal-crossing-super-smash-bros-and-other-ips-in-food-and-accommodation-category\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nintendo applies for new trademarks related to Animal Crossing, Super Smash Bros. and other IPs in \u201cfood and accommodation&quot; 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