# Talk:Mew (Pokémon)


### Mew (Pokémon)
...in which mewtoo features prominently. is it regarded as non-canon or is the article just out of date?
duncanrmi (talk) 16:45, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

@Duncanrmi Mew does not feature in Detective Pikachu, and to my knowledge no reference to it is made in the film. Information about Mewtwo would be on its respective article. Has one ever considered Magneton? Pokelego999 (talk) 17:05, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

There is a common myth that Mew was the first trademark ever filed by Game Freak. This myth seems to have appeared in a Paste's listicle from 2023.
If you actually check the Japanese trademark database (as you can see in this tweet), you will find that is not the case. In 1990, the Yokohama Rubber Company trademarked the Greek letter μ (mu), which is rendered in Japanese as ミュー. The trademark was transferred to Game Freak, Nintendo, and Creatures (jointly) in 1999. I'm happy to pull up the actual filings from the Japanese Patent and Trademark Gazette if necessary, but that's more tedious to do (and won't come with English translations like the tweet does), so I'm hoping that the screenshots in the tweet are sufficient to demonstrate that the claim in the Paste listicle is incorrect.
As noted on an archive of this talk page, the claim appeared on Bulbapedia for many years, which is likely where the author of the Paste article read it. But it was removed (by me) several years ago after it was discovered to be untrue. SnorlaxMonster 12:41, 14 May 2025 (UTC)