{"id":696041,"date":"2026-06-10T17:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/696041\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:37:08","slug":"fernando-mendoza-seeks-trademark-protection-of-nandolorian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/696041\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza seeks trademark protection of &#8220;Nandolorian&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Raiders\u2019 2026 <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tw2w4koO-kY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">schedule-release video<\/a> unofficially gave rookie quarterback Fernando Mendoza a nickname. He now wants to make it official.<\/p>\n<p>Via attorney Josh Gerben, Mendoza <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gerbenlaw.com\/blog\/fernando-mendoza-files-trademark-for-nandolorian-setting-up-potential-clash-with-lucasfilm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">filed on Monday<\/a> a trademark application for the term \u201cNandolorian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Gerben notes, the move could spark a fight with Disney and Lucasfilm, which holds 16 trademarks related to the \u201cMandalorian,\u201d part of the broader Star Wars universe.<\/p>\n<p>One question is whether it counts as a parody. That would be Mendoza\u2019s position, if\/when Disney and Lucasfilm challenge the filing.<\/p>\n<p>Like Caleb Williams and \u201cIceman,\u201d Mendoza\u2019s move is aimed at preventing others from making and selling \u201cNandolorian\u201d merchandise and keeping the money. Disney would likely say that those rights are theirs to protect, if\/when people begin selling \u201cNandolorian\u201d gear.<\/p>\n<p>The situation could get interesting if\/when Disney calls its ESPN partner (the NFL) to try to get Mendoza to back down. Mendoza seems eager to please and to placate his team. If\/when the NFL asks the Raiders to ask Mendoza to withdraw his application, what will he do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raiders\u2019 2026 schedule-release video unofficially gave rookie quarterback Fernando Mendoza a nickname. He now wants to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-696041","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\/696041","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=696041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}