Bill Belichick's Taylor Swift tweaks not enough to bypass Patriots' trademarks

Bill Belichick ran into a roadblock while trying to trademark four phrases with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The USPTO shot down four applications filed by Belichick’s company, TCE Rights Management LLC, which is managed by his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, due to the “likelihood of confusion” with previously filed trademarks that the Patriots — Belichick’s former NFL employer — hold.

The trademarks in question are for four phrases that TCE Rights Management LLC submitted to the USPTO, which included “Do Your Job (Bill’s Version),” “Ignore the Noise (Bill’s Version),” “The Belestrator (Bill’s Version)” and “No Days Off (Bill’s Version).” 3

The phrases — sans the “Bill’s Version” — were trademarked by the Patriots in years past, and the USPTO wrote that it rejected