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Samsung Applies for TV Trademarks Depicting Armor-Clad Hooded Character

Samsung applied June 7 for U.S. trademark protection on a pair of images of an armor-clad warrior with no accompanying wording to be used on a class of products that include monitors, TV sets, speakers and headsets, Patent and Trademark…

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Office records show. One application (serial number 87479515) is for an image depicting the upper body of a character wearing armor, partial face mask and hood. The other filing (87479449) depicts the same character whose head “is slightly turned to face the left,” the application said. Samsung filed similar applications five days earlier with South Korean trademark authorities, PTO records show. Samsung representatives didn’t comment Tuesday.