After a recent trademark application for the word AUTOBOTS was successfully registered Hasbro can now relax as in the last few days the US Patent and Trademark office have now accepted the 10 year re-registration of the words AUTOBOT, DECEPTICON as well as Optimus Prime. These renewals are of the initial trademarks submitted by Hasbro back in August 1984. In other trademark news Hasbro's application for Hardtop has been initally refused, pending further documents. This is unlikely to cause Hasbro to rename the TF: Cybertron Hardtop top and it is expected that Hasbro will either provide further documents or more likely let the application run out in 8 months time after the toy has been released.
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