Greta Thunberg has the ability to divide opinion like few other
celebrities, with a surprising number of people finding her
strangely threatening.
Perhaps it’s simply because Greta is always in the news,
for instance, managing to win Time Magazine’s 2019
Person of the Year award at the age of 17. She has been in the news
again, this time in the context of trade marks. This topic is
considered to be less incendiary (no pun intended) than climate
change, but these days, one never knows what will cause online
anger or resentment to flare up (again, pun not intended) like a
wild fire (to overlabour the point), in Australia.
According to a Reuters report, Greta is applying to register
both her own name, GRETA THUNBERG, and the name of her movement,
FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE, as trade marks. The article provides no details
as to what countries these applications have been filed in, or what
goods or services have been covered. Some online digging however,
revealed three European
