{"id":146174,"date":"2025-09-10T09:09:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/146174\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:09:05","slug":"patriots-win-latest-round-of-bill-belichick-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/146174\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots win latest round of Bill Belichick battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Belichick has another reason to cry about the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>Via Michael Rothstein of ESPN.com, the U.S. Patent &amp; Trademark Office has <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/46199954\/four-trademark-applications-bill-belichick-refused\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">declined four trademark applications<\/a> filed by the North Carolina coach and his muse\/handler\/personal P.R. rep\/girlfriend Jordon Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, they sought trademark protection for: \u201cDo Your Job (Bill\u2019s Version),\u201d \u201cIgnore the Noise (Bill\u2019s Version),\u201d \u201cThe Belestrator (Bill\u2019s Version),\u201d and \u201cNo Days Off (Bill\u2019s Version).\u201d (The \u201cBill\u2019s Version\u201d a Taylor Swift homage; Hudson is a big fan.)<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that Belichick\u2019s former employer, the Patriots, hold the rights to the same four phrases, without the \u201cBill\u2019s Version.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The USPTO found that the effort would cause a \u201clikelihood of confusion\u201d with the trademarks owned by the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Patriots fans will surely continue to be confused about the bizarre animosity that Belichick has for the team, to the point where the claims he\u2019s not welcome in the building since his termination. Despite being in the building since his termination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick has another reason to cry about the Patriots. Via Michael Rothstein of ESPN.com, the U.S. Patent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-146174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}