"Tarot game" is now a trademark?

http://www.thetarotgame.com/

Note the "TM" on the name of this board game. Yes, it is a board game designed by Jude Alexander with theme of Tarot reading. I think Tarot reading might actually be an interesting theme for board games and I'm surprised it took this long for someone to do this but it doesn't seem quite right to me though that they would trademark the term "Tarot game"

I think most of us already know there already is a Tarot game, a card game.
http://www.tarotgame.org


Couldn't they come up with a more distinctive name for this concept?

I had a look at it, sounds a bit complex to play however that is hard to be sure of just looking at the pics and reading that one review. I am also startled that they can Trade Mark a phrase like "Tarot Game".

Should we start a class action protest, based on the fact that whoever came up with the name had no awareness that it is a common phrase used thousands of times every day and has been for centuries?

It's like trademarking "outside" or "going for a walk".


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TM means it's an unregistered trademark -- they put the TM there and not anyone official.

I would think they put it there to specifically refer to their game as opposed to any general tarot game. So anytime you see tarot game with the TM after it, it means that specific game.

It's the whole mark they have trademarked and not the words on their own. So the style of font is an integral part of the trademark.

The words alone wouldn't count, not in the UK anyway. (I looked into this a few years back.)

So what they are trying to stop is someone else coming up with a tarot game and putting their game logo on the box.