In the latest salvo in the let's-claim-credit-for-a-commonly-used-term "pawned" Finnish software company Futuremark Games Studio filed papers on February 26, 2008 to protect the trademark "Pwnage" in relation to:
Next to be trademarked will be "n00bs," "1337," "hax04," "ROTFL," "LOL" and "pr0n.""... computer game software; computer game programs; computer game discs; interactive multimedia computer game program; downloadable ring tones, ... multimedia software recorded on CD-ROM featuring fictional characters and computer games; pre-recorded DVD's, video tapes, laser discs featuring movies about fictional characters, and pre-recorded compact discs featuring music; motion picture films on fictional characters...".
http://www.trademork.com/pwnage/
http://kotaku.com/362753/pwnage-tm
United States Patent and Trademark Office