What this is
A table of who holds which Pokémon rights where, 1997 to 2026: trademark registrant, copyright owner, licensor and enforcer, across Japan, the US, Australia, Britain, Canada, Europe and New Zealand.
How it’s built
- Gathered from trademark registers, court rulings, customs notices and copyright notices already in the research, without arithmetic.
- Each party is labelled registrant (named on a register), licensor of record (named as granting licences or receiving fees) or enforcer (named as plaintiff or customs applicant).
What we assumed
- Those three labels are the right way to sort the parties.They are the research's own definitions, applied to each document's wording; a party can hold more than one role.
- The records read are representative of each territory.Many registers (Japan's, Europe's, China's, Korea's) could not be searched in full, so some rows rest on a few records.
- US title marks moved from Nintendo to Nintendo of America by a recorded ownership change.Registry records show the change of owner received from the international bureau, but the transferor is inferred, not read.
Sanity check
Each row is only as strong as its sources; some are a single record. Its main finding, that Nintendo-group companies hold the registrations while The Pokémon Company licenses and co-owns copyright, recurs across every territory read.
The value
- Columns: holder, right, territory, class, 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.
Show the working
- collation of registry, court, customs and notice facts by holder × right × territory
Where it’s used
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