Mariah Carey: No "Queen Of Christmas"
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The US Patent and Trademark Office has rejected several applications by singer Mariah Carey.
The US media report unanimously.
Carey's company Lotion LLC applied for the trademark rights to Queen of Christmas last year, prompting singer Elizabeth Chan, who released her twelfth Christmas album this year, to object.
»Clothes, spirits, masks, dog collars«
Speaking to industry magazine Vanity Fair, she justified this by noting that "no one should monopolize or monopolize the celebration of Christmas like Mariah intends to do forever."
Speaking of Carey's request, she said: 'She's trying to protect her name in every way she can - clothes, liquor, masks, dog collars - it's all there.
If you knit a Queen of Christmas sweater, you should be able to sell it on Etsy to someone else to buy for their grandma.”
Singer Darlene Love also explained on Facebook that she was already the "Queen of Christmas" before Carey was even famous.
"David Letterman officially proclaimed me Queen of Christmas 29 years ago, a year before she released All I Want For Christmas Is You, and at 81 I'm NOT changing that."
"This is the correct result"
On Tuesday, the US authorities rejected Carey's application for the "Queen of Christmas" trademark, previously they also rejected the applications for the designation "Princess Christmas" and the abbreviation "QOC".
"I'm so happy," Chan told The Wall Street Journal after the decision.
"It's my life's work." Her lawyer also commented positively on the US authorities' decision.
"That's the correct result." Carey has no claim to the trademark right to "Queen of Christmas."
The singer herself had said before Christmas 2021 that the title belonged to Saint Mary, not her.
Other people gave her the title, the 52-year-old told the British BBC.
“I would like to say in all humility that I do not see myself that way.
For me, Saint Mary is the Queen of Christmas.«
However, the singer had already submitted the application for the trademark and associated merchandise rights in March 2021.
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