A woman was left “devastated” after her daughter’s passport application was rejected because she was named after a Game of Thrones character.
Lucy, 39, from Swindon in Wiltshire, said the Passport Office initially refused the application for Khaleesi, six.
Officials said they were unable to issue a passport unless Warner Brothers gave permission because it owned the name’s trademark. But the authority has since apologised for the error.
People really don’t understand trademark despite it being in the name. It’s a trade mark. It’s a mark on something you trade. It only applies to commercial products. Unless Warner Brothers sells children there’s no trademark violation.
With the way the world is lately, it wouldn’t surprise me if they did.
Although, if any one company was going to that, it’d probably be Disney.
When they age out of the It’s A Small World cast, Disney sells them to Nestlé.
I’m prepared to believe this, so won’t be fact-checking it.
Oh are you a journalist
I sometimes pretend to be one at home. “Hold the front page!”, “this story is too good not to be true!”, etc.
What for? By then it’s too late to make baby powder out of them.
Aha but the passport office knew something we didn’t.
Clearly this is proof they sell children overseas.