{"id":3059,"date":"2022-07-03T20:10:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T20:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/03\/nintendo-has-filed-a-new-trademark-for-the-donkey-kong-series\/"},"modified":"2022-07-03T20:10:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T20:10:54","slug":"nintendo-has-filed-a-new-trademark-for-the-donkey-kong-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/03\/nintendo-has-filed-a-new-trademark-for-the-donkey-kong-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Has Filed A New Trademark For The Donkey Kong Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Could DK be returning?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Try not to go bananas over this, but Nintendo has filed a &#8220;new&#8221; trademark for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/arcade\/donkey_kong\"><strong>Donkey Kong<\/strong><\/a> series. This one is seemingly a little different from the usual ones. Instead of another stock-standard renewal, it actually seems to have been updated to mention &#8220;downloadable programs for portable and electronic consoles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s already ignited speculation that <em>something<\/em> video game-related could be on the way to the Nintendo Switch. In saying this, it should <em>probably<\/em> be treated as nothing more than a simple update potentially just future-proofing the Donkey Kong series. Trademark renewals are a regular thing for classic Nintendo IPs.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/07\/nintendo-has-filed-a-new-trademark-for-the-donkey-kong-series\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Nintendo Has Filed A New Trademark For The Donkey Kong Series<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Could DK be returning?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Try not to go bananas over this, but Nintendo has filed a &#8220;new&#8221; trademark for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/arcade\/donkey_kong\"><strong>Donkey Kong<\/strong><\/a> series. This one is seemingly a little different from the usual ones. Instead of another stock-standard renewal, it actually seems to have been updated to mention &#8220;downloadable programs for portable and electronic consoles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s already ignited speculation that <em>something<\/em> video game-related could be on the way to the Nintendo Switch. In saying this, it should <em>probably<\/em> be treated as nothing more than a simple update potentially just future-proofing the Donkey Kong series. Trademark renewals are a regular thing for classic Nintendo IPs.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/07\/nintendo-has-filed-a-new-trademark-for-the-donkey-kong-series\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}