AEW Files To Trademark New Tag Team Name

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AEW has filed to trademark the name of a new tag team that has already drawn criticism from some quarters of the independent wrestling scene.

On the December 21 episode of AEW: Dark, Tony Schiavone announced that Serpentico, Angelico and Luther would now be known as the S.A.P.

S.A.P, it would transpire, is short for Spanish Announce Project – a fusion of the fact that Angelico and Serpentico are on AEW’s Spanish announce team, and that Serpentico & Luther were already a tag team called Chaos Project.

The USPTO website reports show that AEW has filed to trademark the following terms relating to the group:

SPANISH ANNOUNCE PROJECT

SPANISH ANNOUNCE POSITION

SAP

All three trademarks were filed with the following description:

Conducting entertainment exhibitions in the nature of wresting exhibits and performances by professional wrestlers; Entertainment in the nature of wrestling contests; Entertainment services in the nature of development, creation, production, distribution, and post-production of television shows; Entertainment services in the nature of live wrestling performances; Entertainment services in the nature of production of wrestling programs and wrestling multimedia entertainment event content; Entertainment services, namely, production and distribution of ongoing television programs in the field of wrestling; Fan clubs; Providing a website featuring entertainment information in the fields of wrestling, sports, and entertainment; Providing entertainment information in the fields of wrestling, sports, and entertainment via a website; Providing wrestling news and information via a global computer network

All three trademarks cover the primary US classes of:

100: Miscellaneous
101: Advertising and Business
107: Education and Entertainment

The primary international class is listed as:

041 – Primary Class
(Education and entertainment) Education; providing of training; entertainment; sporting and cultural activities.

The choice of name recently came under fire from the well-established tag team, the S.A.T. (also known as Spanish Announce Team).

The Spanish Announce Team have been active since 2000.

S.A.T. member Jose Maximo took to Twitter to address the issue going as far as referring to Serpentico and Angelico as a “bunch of marks trying to benefit from our gimmick and name.”

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