Meghans trademark not allowed

[Viviennemary]

The patent office apparently has turned down the trademark of Meghans new jam making business American Riviera Orchard on the grounds that you can't trademark geographical locations. You would have thought somebody would have picked up on this before now.

Gossip sites claim that the cooking show has been filmed but NF are sitting on it because focus groups didn’t rate what they saw. It’s apparently slated for a possible release next May but as that’s close to the contract end, both sides might prefer to sell it to a new company for broadcast. I’ve not seen any comments about the polo show. If Harry has managed to travel to places like Australia and nothing has leaked then he should be pleased about that from a security mindset.

What age are we calling young? Blake Lively and Chrissy Teigen sold their ranges in Target (I believe that the BL shampoos are $19.99 which is a young person price) but I can’t see Meghan going down that route. (Flashbacks to the reactions of Fergie on QVC)

Why would anyone part with their money for a face cream from someone who is only really known for marrying a prince and then running out of royal life?

Face cream sold by Meghan? Um, no thanks. I'd be wondering what Harry was using it for.

He should bring out a todger cream. It might do quite well as a gag sticking filler

If the cooking show has already been filmed, why would NF sit on it for a whole year? It's not like they have to fit it into a schedule as they're a streamer. Also, early summer would seem like an odd time to release a cooking show. Then again, I also heard it was going to appear round about now, along with 'ARO', as well as early next year. So I think people are just guessing, in the absence of any official announcements.

As for your other point, I think most successful 'celebrity' brands have a tie in with an established retailer and don't depend on online sales alone. I'm not sure any mainstream retailer would want to get involved with this mess.

Trademarking is always difficult eg Kim K couldn’t trademark Kimono and changed it to Skims.

Not true. Kim had trademarked Kimono without a problem, but she faced a PR storm of backlash for cultural appropriation of important Japanese traditions when she launched her shapewear under that name.

That was the reason for the name change (in truth, if Skims was the B option, I think it was a much better name).

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jul/01/our-traditional-garment-is-not-spandex-kim-kardashian-west-renames-brand-amid-outcry#:~:text=Kardashian%20West%2C%2038%2C%20drew%20accusations,she%20was%20changing%20the%20name.

Look at the full url

The page is on netflix.com - it's announcements/chat but within the main Netflix site.

What we haven't seen is any progress on either project since April, apart from vague statements earlier this summer that filming had concluded. If that's true, what is the typical length of time from completion of filming to a finished show being ready to air?

I saw that. Jennifer’s home is lovely and she seems really nice too.

The ghostwriter wrote an account; there was some stuff he didn't put in, because it clearly wasn't true and Harry got angry. He said it took months because Harry learned and worked "at a glacial pace".
I think Moehringer did what he could with some fairly stupid, ludicrous and exaggerated raw material.

Duchess Meghan 😂 those two words make me laugh so much !

I think if they’ve made the shows and I think they have, they will air. It will be once and done , never to be repeated end of contract,game over. I also read, but not blind, that the focus groups reactions were poor, people didn’t engage with the shows. And Netflix will know what they are doing here,

as aro is dead, then she can’t link to it. I don’t think they can come back from this.

It's basically a 'fan' site. It is not the place to find official announcements of upcoming shows. To repeat, no such official announcement exists. Neither 'show' has an IMDB page, an official name, or a release date. The 'shows' may or may not be in production, but NF has not confirmed their existence.

The 'cooking show', if it exists, should be fairly quick and easy to produce so I don't understand why there would be a big delay between filming and streaming. Maybe it's true that test audience reactions were unfavourable? Or that could be just another rumour.

Maybe Meghan doesn’t want it released in its current state? She has a lot riding on this and even though she acts like she doesn’t care, she is human.

Apparently the cooking show isn’t on Netflix internal documents that list up to March 2025 releases which may be where May comes from.

The cooking show can’t be released until the merchandise is ready and even if she has a Nigerian and Colombian small business ready to go with a special item , that’s not going to cut it. (The trips to those countries would have been perfect to source something from a small supplier for ARO)

Oh, I so want to see that cooking show! You just know that it's going to be unintentionally hilarious 😂

Do you think Megsy will have a recipe that we can use for the egg on our face?

Fingers crossed we won’t have to wait for the cooking show to tell us, otherwise we will be waiting a long time 🤞

Treated her "with degradation" 😂😂😂

You don't get a lucrative divorce settlement and opportunities for a very high profile glorified Kiss and Tell by just being a girlfriend.

And you don't have the cachet of being a royal wife with a royal wedding, royal tours, children being Prince and Princess etc etc. Being a royal wife, even on the outside, brings massive privilege that being just a girlfriend doesn't. And you can leave whenever you want.

I mean from Meghan’s pov. She would have, in hindsight, been better off being his ‘serious’ girlfriend for a couple of years and then leaving him. I agreed with pp who suggested this scenario,

Yes, I get that it's chat.

But it's hosted on the Netflix official website and is an avowed official partner

And would Netflix allow content they knew to be untrue be published by its official partner on its own website? Really?

(Contrast with Meet Me At The Lake - nothing, rumoured Miss Havisham/Bad Manners - nothing)

Lack of further updates, or information on imdb, on either show just indicates that there is clearly some way to go before anything is ready.

And would Netflix allow content they knew to be untrue be published by its official partner on its own website? Really?

Yes. Netflix is not going to employ someone to fact check every post on that site!

When there's no good counter argument, always revert to the greatest hits.

Whether the rather vague information is 'true' or not is not my point.

You challenged my claim that NF have never confirmed the existence of either of the alleged 'shows'. But what I wrote is correct. There has been no official announcement from NF.

Maybe either or both shoes is in production. Maybe either or both will appear on NF. But given the Sussexes' history of projects which failed to launch, it seems reasonable to be sceptical.

I share your scepticism about whether either will emerge!

I take the hosting of the statement about the shows on the Netflix site to be adequate endorsement.
(Especially given the absence of anything on cancelled shows, or ones which don't seem to be doing anything)

I think the shows are under development, that they are part of the Archewell/Netflix deal, and that they may or may not actually launch

10/10 for effort

But people ain’t buying it

Sorry, ignore! Wrong reply