Rollercoaster Trademark/License

Hello, just joined the coasterbuzz family. I'm finishing up a coaster game, but was wondering if there are trademarks/licenses attached to the rollercoaster's name and or design.

You can look up trademarks on the USPTO site.

Thanks, I didn't see anything, for say for instance dueling dragons- have you come across anything? I wonder if I'm searching the wrong way.

Dueling Dragons

It's a safe bet that every major roller coaster name is trademarked.

Yeah, they file trademarks on names they don’t even always use.

That link says the registration was cancelled or invalidated.

Correct, because Dueling Dragons no longer exists

Unless you have a good lawyer and can afford to fight big corporations, you're much better off not using real world rides in a commercial game, regardless of the trademark status.

Chris Sawyer did it...

But he is a rollercoaster gaming legend.

And he went through the proper legal process to utilize real parks/real rides in his game. IIRC the Six Flags logo was on the box of RCT2.