However, in the Tarzan books, Burroughs merely described this holler as "the victory cry of the bull ape." The trademark registration's language isn't quite as concise: protects the intellectual property of the author and Tarzan creator, and it holds the trademark for his hero's yell, as made famous by actor Johnny Weissmuller. While it may be listed in Simpsons scripts as an "annoyed grunt," the sound of Homer Simpson saying "D'oh!" is now an official trademark owned by Twentieth Century Fox. The above video is a full minute of that sound, just in case you've got some time to kill. The iconic ticking of 60 Minutes' stopwatch was successfully trademarked by CBS. While Post gets a royalty, Universal holds the trademark, describing the sound as "two musical notes, a strike and a rapid rearticulation of a perfect fifth pitch interval, which in the key of C sounds the notes C and G, struck concurrently." 3. "It’s actually a piece of music that gets a royalty…I call it the ‘ching ching’ because I’m making money off of it."
"I sampled a jail door slamming, I sampled a couple of other things, I put together this ‘clunk clunk,’ ‘ching ching,’ ‘chong chong,’ whatever the hell you want to call it," Post said in an interview. That iconic two-strike "chung chung" sound from Law & Order was created by composer Mike Post, who also wrote the show's theme song. Lions Gate Entertainment is understandably protective of its lucrative Hunger Games franchise, so it's no surprise the studio trademarked Rue's four-note song, described to the United States Patent and Trademark Office as "a human whistling a G4 eighth note, followed by a Bb4 eighth note, followed by an A4 eighth note, followed by a D4 half note, in the key of G minor." 2. Here are 14 popular sounds that are currently trademarked. Other sounds don't have those kinds of issues, especially ones you hear on TV shows, movies, and commercials every day. Harley-Davidson famously tried for years to get this protection for the purr of its V-twin motorcycle engine, only to be locked in legal limbo for so long that they gave up and withdrew their request. Registering an aural trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office can be difficult.
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