WWE files to trademark ‘Edge’

It appears WWE doesn’t want Adam Copeland to use the name Edge when he returns to AEW.

WWE, through attorney Lauren A. Dienes-Middlen, filed to trademark the name for wrestling purposes on Monday, November 19, 2024, according to documents available on the US Patent and Trademark Office website.

The purposes of the filing are stated as, “Wrestling exhibitions and performances by a professional wrestler and entertainer rendered through broadcast media including television and via the internet or commercial online service; providing wrestling news and information via a global computer network; providing information in the fields of sports via an online community portal.”

Copeland began wrestling as Edge upon making his WWE debut in 1998. He continued using the name until debuting for AEW in October 2023.

In an interview with Fox in 2022, Copeland spoke about how he came up with the name.

“I actually came up with Edge. I would have preferred Adam Copeland, but that wasn’t the way it really worked then, right? I was doing dark matches, and Don Callis and I were driving and the radio station, it was in Albany and it was ‘Edge 1-0-something,’ and growing up in Toronto, Edge 102 was always one of my favorite stations,” he said.