A second US trademark search, November 2026, found no records owned by Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, Creatures or Game Freak for 13 human Pokémon character names

How it’s built

1. Searched the USPTO trademark database for each of 13 names (Ash Ketchum, Iono, Cynthia and others) against all four owner names.
2. Checked the method works: Pikachu with Nintendo returns 18 records, Eevee 5, Charizard 4.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

Covers the US only. Others own many of the names (Cynthia 234 records). 'Team Rocket' has no records under any owner. Japan's register was not searched.

The value

• Human names times owner Nintendo Pokemon Creatures GameFreak: 0

Some detail is too fine to show here; it is kept in the trainer’s notes.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

wordmark:<name> AND ownerFullText:(Nintendo | Pokemon | Creatures | "GAME FREAK") -> totalValue 0 for all 13 names and all 4 owner strings; wordmark:PIKACHU AND ownerFullText:Nintendo -> 18

Where it’s used

• StoryCharacters
• Chart · CharactersPikachu’s name has 18 US trademark records and 13 trainer names have none held by a Pokémon company