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Known Trademarks for the Mystery Dungeon franchise. Some trademarks have logos attached to them.

Mystery Dungeon

不思議のダンジョン

Fushigi no Dungeon trademark logo (associated with the first four trademarks)

不思議のダンジョン (for search)

フシギノダンジョン (pronunciation)

Company: Spike Chunsoft

Filing date: December 6, 1994

Registration date: May 16, 1997

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Company: Spike Chunsoft

Filing date: September 12, 2014

Registration date: January 23, 2015

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Official pages for the Spike Chunsoft games do claim the trademark, however they do not say the trademark is registered, implying it is only filed. This was not the case prior to the merge with Spike, older pages said this trademark was registered by Chunsoft.

This trademark has been registered multiple times.

The first filing date happened over a year after the release of  Torneko's Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon.

Dragon Quest Mystery Dungeon

トルネコの大冒険

トルネコの大冒険 (for search)

トルネコノダイボーケン (pronunciation)

Company: Square Enix

Filing date: July 26, 1993

Registration date: June 28, 1996

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Square Enix didn't exist in 1993/1996. Who was the original holder? According to a Japanese rumor based on the 2004 2channel Leak, Chunsoft used to have the copyright for Torneko before they sold it to Square Enix. See: Torneko's Great Adventure Rights for more information.

Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer

風来のシレン

Fuurai no Shiren trademark logo (associated with the first trademark)

風来のシレン (for search)

フーライノシレン, フーライノ, フーライ, シレン (pronunciation)

Company: Spike Chunsoft

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Fuurai no Shiren trademark logo (associated with the second trademark)

Company: Spike Chunsoft

Filing date: September 5, 2001

Registration date: February 21, 2003

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Company: Spike Chunsoft

Filing date: February 10, 2017

Registration date: September 8, 2017

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This trademark has been registered multiple times.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

ポケダン

ポケダン

Companies: Nintendo, Creatures, Game Freak

Filing date: October 4, 2023

Registration date: July 17, 2024

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Japanese abbreviation of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. The abbreviation has officially been used since the early days of the series.

The same name was also formerly used for a series of games developed by "enish" affiliated with the Japanese social network "GREE", called Our Pocket Dungeon (Japanese: ボクらのポケットダンジョン), released around 2011 and 2012, including a game called Pokedan Monsters (Japanese: ポケダンモンスターズ).

POKÉPALS

POKÉPALS trademark logo.

POKÉPALS

Company: Nintendo

Filing date: June 12, 2023

Status date: August 17, 2023

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Team PokéPals is a group in the series. The trademark comes with an image logo using the word. The name may be a coincidence.