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Posted: 2022-11-16T19:32:51Z | Updated: 2022-11-16T19:32:51Z

Looks like Mariah Carey s favorite season is getting off to a frosty start.

On Tuesday, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board terminated Careys petition to register Queen of Christmas as a trademark, quashing the pop divas plans to brand a wide range of products, including album and concert merchandise as well as a fragrance and apparel line, with the title.

Carey had filed an application for Queen of Christmas, Princess Christmas and QOC with the U.S. Trademark Office in March 2021, according to the Los Angeles Times . By all accounts, her claim to those titles seemed legitimate, given that her 1994 smash All I Want for Christmas Is You is ubiquitous throughout the month of December and continues to shatter airplay records.

Careys trademark bid, however, went down like a lump of coal for two fellow musicians, Elizabeth Chan and Darlene Love. Both denounced Careys plan in interviews and on social media after it became public in July, and Chans legal team reportedly filed a formal opposition shortly thereafter.

Christmas has come way before any of us on earth, and hopefully will be around way after any of us on earth, Chan, who bills herself as the worlds only full-time Christmas recording artist, told Variety . And I feel very strongly that no one person should hold onto anything around Christmas or monopolize it in the way that Mariah seeks to in perpetuity. Thats just not the right thing to do.

Love, whose 1963 hit Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) rivals Carey in airplay during the holidays, pointed out that David Letterman deemed her the Queen of Christmas some 29 years ago.

At 81 years of age Im NOT changing anything, Love wrote on Facebook . If Mariah has a problem call David or my lawyer!