um Alexandria Octavio Cortes might sue you for your acronym. I am using NWR that one does not identify with anyone already established or famous.

I write into my history the entire play of any character in my RPG. not just their name.

The title ‘Axis of Conflict’, ‘AoC’, and the logo brand mark have been filed for trademark at great expense to me in 1996, and two books have also been filed with the Library of Congress in 1997 assuring copyright. Besides, that’s not really how trademark law works regarding namesakes in non-competing sectors.

I would figure that your trademark could be acquired through a copyright. If this is not the case then how is it different?

Oh and good for you for obtaining it before she did!

You could sue her for trademark infringement since she is worth 10 million dollars now.

Hoo-boy! Sorry for the wall of text, but I am really fascinated by this topic. Time for some Intellectual Property Rights 101 —

Technically speaking, Trademarks and Copyrights are attained automatically and immediately upon publication, and posting work online is considered a form of publication. However, as you know, works and electronic datestamps are easily stolen, pirated and forged so it's difficult for anyone to prove "who was first" and who truly owns an idea. In order to assure that your Copyright or Trademark is valid and exclusively yours, it must be registered somewhere for public record and law enforcement to refer to as an absolute. These places are The Library of Congress and the U.S. Patent & Trademark offices, respectively. Patents are NEVER automatic and must be applied for — which is why places like Amazon can patent the process of photographing products against a white background and now sue everyone who photographs their stuff in this manner, even decades after this process has been done by countless millions.

Copyrights (© for print or ℗ for audio) and Trademarks (™ for general use or ® for registered) are not the same. Copyrights cover whole ideas — whole works — and Trademarks cover namesakes and specific details. A Copyright will cover the idea of a superhero who came to this planet as a baby, was adopted by farmers, grows powerful from the yellow sun, learns to fly and has superhuman strength ultimately becoming a benevolent, god-like super-human. A Trademark will protect his blue and red costume and a second Trademark will protect the name "Superman". A person can try to Trademark a proper name like "Clark Kent", but if they were successful, all of the real Clark Kents in the world would in infringing on DC Comics' rights and the comic company could successfully sue them, which is unconstitutional (a company cannot deny someone their own name). Therefore the Patent office almost never allows proper names to become protected, with rare exceptions (McDonald's). But the law also works in reverse, which is why parents can name their children "Pepsi" or "Mercedes" and not be sued by these companies. Most importantly, Trademarks only apply to the very specific items for which they were registered. Which is why you can have "Cadillac" cars, "Cadillac" dog food and "Cadillac" hotels — none of these things compete in the same spaces. Also, unless someone specifically registers the initials or acronym of a name, that is never protected. Which is why you can have 100 companies with the acronym "ABC" and they're all legally sound.
(And Patents cover the instructions, plans, processes, ingredients, or techniques used in making a thing. Patents do not have their own symbol, but if owned, the words "Patent" or "Patent Pending" [if registered but not confirmed] must be clearly printed on the item WITH the specific Patent serial number or is otherwise invalid.)

Copyrights and Trademarks (and Patents) are not interchangeable. Both require that the proper paperwork, legal confirmation, and a functional sample of the thing (along with all processing fees) be submitted for review and processing at the Library of Congress. A Copyright costs approximately $35, can be filled out yourself and lasts your entire lifetime plus an additional 75 year after your death. (You can thank Disney for that — and they're currently fighting for 100 years). Once that time expires, the idea is now permanently part of the public domain. Mickey Mouse is therefore in danger of becoming public domain, and Disney is lobbying hard to prevent that (just as they did 25 years ago; 50 years ago; 75 years ago). However, no one at the Library of Congress checks to see if your work is similar to an existing Copyright. If a future lawsuit arises, the Copyright with the earliest date-stamp wins. Case closed.

Trademarks also require a fee — several in fact, and registration with the Patent & Trademark Office. The Trademark form is about $285 to file. Once received, the Office will review your submission. If it is similar to an existing Trademark on *any* level, it will be rejected outright, often without explanation. The money is non-refundable, as it was used by the Office to research your claim. You can keep trying until it goes through, (costly), or you must go to a Patent and Trademark attorney who specializes in researching these things in order to best secure your Trademark. These lawyers will cost anywhere from $135 to $500 per hour, and will easily cost between $2,000 and $10,000 depending on the skill level required and complexity of your case. There is still a chance the paperwork will be rejected. Once attained, however, the Trademark lasts for 2 to 3 years (depending on the type) and must be renewed every 2 to 3 years for another ~$285 filing fee. If the Trademark fee is not paid, it will expire and someone else can claim ownership. (Similar to domain registrations for websites). If this happens, your original concept is someone else's property and technically they can sue you for infringement. This happens all the time.

So after all, is said and done, I own "AoC" outright as a name, independently from "Axis of Conflict" which has its own Trademark. All of the written stories, comics, and select anthologies have also been submitted for Copyrights. In 2019, I own 36 Copyrights and 10 trademarks. But despite all of this, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cannot sue me and I cannot sue her.

Good explanation.; as a side note I make a lot of my replies in a wall of text, mostly because there is no short answer.

I went for the writer's copyright i made in 1992 of a CD I built that has my RPG on it before I rewrote and expanded it, CDs of the 90s have a date stamp in them as to two dates, when the CD was created by Sony or whomever and the date that data was placed on it. (mostly through playing it with other people to work out the structure of each of the 250 full length campaigns, and 2,000 adventures).

As far as I have seen no one has figured out how to run an RPG and adventure with only two rules! Everyone else uses a set structure that the player must play a set character in and improve slowly. I inverted the Role Playing Game so that the players control the direction of their characters in the game and can improve quickly based upon their own methods, once they figure out how!

This structure STILL has not been figured out by any new Role Playing game So I have some time to get up another ten dollars for my TX online copyright form.