What this is
How the US Pokémon trademark records sort by type of legal instrument, as read to 2 November 2026: no licence found; every international-route mark read was transferred to Nintendo of America; the US arm appears mainly as an “affiliate” on customs listings.
How it’s built
- Sorted the registry and customs records read by instrument type.
- Customs: 46 current records list The Pokémon Company and its US arm as “affiliate”, plus “all authorized licensees”.
- Own marks: the US arm owned one registration (cancelled 2026) and two POKKÉN marks; one POKKÉN design passed to Nintendo of America.
What we assumed
- A customs listing is not a licence.US customs rules require owners to list everyone authorised to use the mark or under common control; the listing gives no terms.
Sanity check
Licence recordals could not be read, so “no licence found” is an absence in what was available, not proof none exists.
The value
- Columns: instrument type, found?, parties (verbatim where read), evidence
Some detail is too fine to show here; it is kept in the trainer’s notes.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes: