They’re trying hard to maintain anonymity, but entertainment giants are trying harder to highlight the elite special forces team that killed Osama bin Laden.

First came word that the Oscar-winning team of director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, who made The Hurt Locker, were fine-tuning their script about the hunt for the world’s most wanted terrorist.

Now, MediaBistro reports the Walt Disney Company is trying to trademark the unit’s name, Seal Team 6, through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Disney's application, filed two days after bin Laden’s May 1 death, includes toys, games and playthings; gymnastic and sporting articles (except clothing); hand-held units for playing electronic games; Christmas stockings; Christmas tree ornaments; snow globes; clothing; footwear; headwear and “entertainment and education services.” The company hasn’t announced its plans for the patent if granted.

The members of the special team that took down bin Laden in Pakistan are unlikely to ever speak publicly about the raid that ended a decade-long manhunt, but that won’t stop the move to publicize the group being heralded as heroes.

While any kind of film is at least a year from completion, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Howard Wasdin’s book, SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper, is being rushed into stores this week ahead of its originally scheduled May 24 publication date.

-Star staff and wires

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