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Originally Posted by Trenien
I prefer to avoid speaking on how I feel about the case and that of copyright.
But, Harry, you keep talking about trademark: I may have missed something but I think you're mistaken here.
As far as I understand, trademark is mostly used to identify the origin of a product. Since the author of the book makes no claim that Rowling is the author, there's no such violation here. Copyright, maybe, but certainly not trademark.
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Apparently the names of the HP "characters" as well as words like "Hogwarts", "Quidich", etc, have been registered as trademarks. It's all to do with the merchandising rights, and so on.