Donald Trump is likely to be planning to launch a cell community and a Trump-branded cellphone. DTTM Operations LLC, the corporate Trump makes use of to handle his logos, has utilized to make use of each “Trump” and “T1” for telecoms, cell equipment, and even telephones themselves.
The purposes, filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office final Thursday, cowl wi-fi cellphone companies, cell phones, circumstances, and chargers, plus retail shops to promote all of them.
A trademark software doesn’t assure {that a} Trump cell community is about to launch, however it does sign intent. “The specificity of the purposes factors to severe consideration,” patent legal professional Josh Gerben wrote in a blog post on Friday, noting that as a part of the submitting a lawyer for Trump can have “signed a sworn declaration affirming the corporate’s real plans to deliver these items and companies to market.”
Trump launching a cell community may have issues. For one, Gerben factors out that T-Cell may need a factor or two to say concerning the software, since “T1” may infringe by itself logos. That’s earlier than we get to the query of how FCC chairman Brendan Carr will deal with regulating a community owned by his boss.
Trump isn’t the one public determine together with his sights set on telecoms. Whereas Ryan Reynolds has gotten out after selling his stake in Mint Mobile to T-Mobile in 2023, simply final week noticed the launch of SmartLess Mobile, delivered to you by the podcast of the identical title hosted by Hollywood stars Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes.