What this is
US trademarks held by Nintendo-group companies: 27 records for creature names (Pikachu, Charizard, Eevee) against none for 13 human character names such as Ash Ketchum.
How it’s built
- Searched the USPTO trademark database in November 2026 for each name, filtered by owner (Nintendo, Pokémon, Creatures, Game Freak).
- Pikachu returned 18 Nintendo records, Charizard 4, Eevee 5; the 13 human names returned 0 for every owner.
What we assumed
- The owner filter catches all Pokémon-company records.Tested: Pikachu with Nintendo gives the same 18 as an earlier search, and The Pokémon Company International and Game Freak names are indexed. Creatures has no such test.
- The US register stands for the pattern elsewhere.Only the US was searched. Japan's register was unreachable, and one patent attorney's blog claims the name Satoshi is registered there.
Sanity check
Others own many of the human names in the US (Cynthia 234 records, Lillie 93), so a zero is not for want of availability. A record under an unusual owner spelling would be missed.
The value
- EUIPO TMview: unreachable
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:
- FiledUSPTO LILLIE wordmark: records with owner Nintendo / Pokemon / Creatures / Game Freak, USPTO tmsearch, as of 1 November 2026
- FiledUS trademark records for the word PIKACHU held by Nintendo18 count
- FiledSanity: USPTO owner-name records for The Pokemon Company International and GAME FREAK, USPTO tmsearch, as of 1 November 2026
- EstimateSeries gap, 30 October 2026
- EstimateSatoshi's cap design: trademark registration (Japan), secondhand, undated blog (fetched 1 November 2026)
Show the working
- 18+4+5=27 creature-name records with Nintendo as owner
- 13 human-name queries x 4 owner strings = 0 records (7 in lane B-b, 6 in lane G)