Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your trademark restrictions; The Boston Globe, June 5, 2018

Maria Cramer, The Boston Globe; Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your trademark restrictions

"Companies pay the Patent and Trademark Office a small fee to register for a trademark, and generally it is not unusual for trademark applications to go unchallenged, said Jennifer Rothman, a law professor at Loyola Law School in California who teaches trademark law and is not connected to the case.

“The Patent and Trademark Office doesn’t have a lot of time to review these things,” Rothman said. “If no one opposes it, they approve it.”

Some companies take advantage of the less-than-robust screening process to snap up well-known names, then file complaints against businesses that have used the names for their products to leverage payments, Rothman said."