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My idea of naming him 'Melton' is just pie in the sky then ;-)
Would these idiots deny a passport for someone named Michael Jordan?
It's both Trademarked and Copyrighted.
Michael B. Jordan in shambles.
Loki Skywalker Mowbray?
For actual fuck's sake.
Like Sky Lord.
People should be allowed one free name change when they're 20.
Plus be allowed to change one of their parents' names.
Fucking take that, Gashlicker Gastropod
Subsequent changes are 400 Xbox Live Points
So, they didn't learn from the last time this happened, and fucked up again in exactly the same way.
Uh, wouldn't that primarily be trademark? A name by itself shouldn't trigger that
Even trademark shouldn't apply, as this is a child name, not a mark he uses for trade, I.e a company name or product. No one is going to confuse a kid not selling anything to a corporation competing with Disney.
This was someone at the UK passport office fucking up. Wonder if the EU would have made the same mistake.
This was someone at the UK passport office fucking up.
As I said in the previous discussion, I have known a few people at the Passport Office and they often mess with the passports of celebrities, so I wondered whether they decided to "punish" the parents of kids with such names. This convinces me they are. The trademark excuse is just a figleaf for their dickery.
Not really a fuck-up per se. Probably no HEO available and they erred on the side of caution. Type “Skywalker” into this UK government site: https://www.gov.uk/search-for-trademark
The EU doesn't deliver passports. It depends on the country you're in.
They are not called passports as the EU is not a country, but it is pretty close:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_laissez-passer
I didn't know about those. I wonder where and why one would get one given that a "standard passport for your country does the same.
In France everybody uses the national passport when going abroad, and no EU agency is involved in getting one.
It is used only as a diplomatic passport for EU representatives. Unlike with a normal French passport, you get diplomatic immunity, to walk through border checkpoints without being searched and so forth.