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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may have said goodbye to her royal titles, but a woman in the United States is still struggling to cash in on the name “Sussex Royal” anyway … and she says she’s doing it for the Queen !!!
As we reported for the first time … there was a race here in the United States right after the “Megxit” news last year marks the term, something that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex requested, but ended up withdrawing the offer to do only in the UK.
Since then, however, it seems that everyone in America who chased the “Sussex Royal” trademark has abandoned the deposit … except Carrie Devorah, which requested the use of the phrase to sell bedding products, specifically to children.
Carrie told TMZ … she filed her trademark paperwork in January 2020 because she realized Queen Elizabeth she wouldn’t allow Harry and Meghan to capitalize on their bonds, but she didn’t think anything would stop her.
Carrie says she thinks the name Sussex Royal is beautiful and likes her cultural connection to the royal family, and – since she was born in Canada – she insists she wants to honor the queen.
She is facing an uphill battle to block the trademark, however, because the US Patent and Trademark Office has already rejected her application because it found that the phrase falsely suggested a connection with Harry and Meghan.
Carrie has a few weeks to respond to the USPTO’s rejection and tells us that she plans to do so by arguing that Harry and Meghan didn’t bother to ask for the brand in the USA … nor did they apply for a category bed as she did.
Carrie also said that the USPTO’s claim that “Sussex Royal” suggests a connection to Harry and Meghan is unfair, because according to her … the Queen has never given permission to former royalty to commercialize the term. So she doesn’t think it would falsely suggest any connection to them.