The website The Smoking Gun says Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, one of the stars of MTV’s Jersey Shore, can’t trademark her name to use on books because of a cartoon cat.
Quoting records from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the website said Polizzi was refused because of a “likelihood of confusion” with a cat character featured in a children’s book called Adventures of Snooky.
The book, by John Monaghan, features a cat that gets knocked overboard on a family fishing trip.
Smoking Gun quotes a description by Brian J. Publishing, which reads: “Join Snooky as he makes many new friends searching for his family under the sea. Find out what happens when Snooky’s new friends run into danger. Can he help save them? Will Snooky ever find his lost family?”
As far as we can tell, this Snooky’s adventures do not include drinking to excess, getting into fist fights or hooking up.
But all is not lost for Jersey Shore Snooki.
The website says an application to trademark her name for “entertainment in the nature of personal appearances by a television personality” is still on track.
Quoting records from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the website said Polizzi was refused because of a “likelihood of confusion” with a cat character featured in a children’s book called Adventures of Snooky.
The book, by John Monaghan, features a cat that gets knocked overboard on a family fishing trip.
Smoking Gun quotes a description by Brian J. Publishing, which reads: “Join Snooky as he makes many new friends searching for his family under the sea. Find out what happens when Snooky’s new friends run into danger. Can he help save them? Will Snooky ever find his lost family?”
As far as we can tell, this Snooky’s adventures do not include drinking to excess, getting into fist fights or hooking up.
But all is not lost for Jersey Shore Snooki.
The website says an application to trademark her name for “entertainment in the nature of personal appearances by a television personality” is still on track.
