{"id":95546,"date":"2019-06-22T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/nintendo_creatures_and_game_freak_apply_for_dynamax_band_trademark_in_japan"},"modified":"2019-06-22T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:55:00","slug":"nintendo-creatures-and-game-freak-apply-for-dynamax-band-trademark-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/22\/nintendo-creatures-and-game-freak-apply-for-dynamax-band-trademark-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo, Creatures And Game Freak Apply For &#8216;Dynamax Band&#8217; Trademark In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e15a6d347d0e8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e15a6d347d0e8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">Increase the size of your Pok\u00e9mon<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/79507\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Liam_Doolan\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Liam_Doolan\">Liam Doolan<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <time class=\"date age \" datetime=\"2019-06-22T14:55:00+00:00\"><span>19 hours ago<\/span><\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Direct\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e15a6d347d0e8\/pokemon-direct.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e15a6d347d0e8\/pokemon-direct.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Direct\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>One of the new features in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/a><\/strong> is the &#8220;dynamax&#8221; ability \u2013 allowing trainers to transform their pocket monsters into giants on the battlefield for a short period of time. There are also raids in the game where you can fight alongside other players to defeat these overly large Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, Japanese Nintendo is reporting Nintendo, Creatures and Game Freak have applied for a Dynamax Band trademark in Japan. These bands can be seen around the wrists of trainers in the recent Sword and Shield Direct <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PpjVUOJkX-s\">presentation<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the application:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>This trademark is said to cover a number of purposes ranging from exercise equipment to game tools, playing cards, jigsaw puzzles and even plush dolls.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you looking forward to dynamaxing your Pok\u00e9mon in this upcoming release? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[via <a rel=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/japanesenintendo.com\/2019\/06\/22\/dynamax-band-trademark\/\" href=\"https:\/\/japanesenintendo.com\/2019\/06\/22\/dynamax-band-trademark\/\">japanesenintendo.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com\/pokemon\/related-info\/e50f3a55760b0752a5f72abfea50b9c3 @ 2019-06-23T10:24:38+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"see-also\">\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\"><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increase the size of your Pok\u00e9mon by Liam Doolan 19 hours ago One of the new features in Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield is the &#8220;dynamax&#8221; ability \u2013 allowing trainers to transform their pocket monsters into giants on the battlefield for a short period of time. There are also raids in the game where you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}