Faleena Hopkins, whose works include Cocky Romantic and Cocky Cowboy, is said to have written to other writers asserting her right to the adjective in titles 
 
 Romance novelists have risen en masse to defend their right to use the word “cocky”, after one writer moved to trademark the adjective. 
 
 Faleena Hopkins is the self-published author of a series of books about the “Cocker Brothers” (“Six bad boy brothers you’ll want to marry or hide under you [sic] bed”), each of which features the word “cocky” in the title: Cocky Romantic, Cocky Biker, Cocky Cowboy. On Saturday, author Bianca Sommerland posted a YouTube video sharing allegations that Hopkins had written to authors whose books also had titles including the word “cocky”, informing them that she had been granted the official registered trademark of the adjective in relation to romance books, and asking them to rename their novels or face legal action. 
 
 Records at the US patent and trademark office show that the registered trademark for use of the word “cocky” in relation to romance ebooks was issued in April 2018. 
 
 Self-published writer Jamila Jasper, who claims she was asked by Hopkins to change the title of her novel Cocky Cowboy, said she removed her novel from sale after she was contacted by Hopkins. “I have to admit I am intimidated because I don’t have many resources to fight this legally if she does pursue,” she wrote on Twitter. 
 
 Jamila Jasper (@JamilaJasper) The message I received from "Cocky Gate". #freecocky #cockygate #rwa pic.twitter.com/HzAr4Qr9Ii 
 
 Pajiba reported on Monday that the author Nana Malone had been asked to change the title of her novel Mr Cocky, while TL Smith and Melissa Jane’s Cocky Fiancé has been renamed Arrogant Fiancé. Other writers claimed that Hopkins had reported them to Amazon, resulting in their books being taken down from the site. 
 
 Hopkins tweeted that the word was “a brand”, and that the writers she was contacting could “keep their books, rankings, reviews and their money by retitling which takes one day”. On Facebook, she said she was a victim of “cyber-bullying”, writing that she “applied for the trademark to protect the future of my series because it helps people. It’s filled with love, hope, and respect to all human beings.” 
 
 She added: “I receive letters from readers who lost money thinking they bought my series. I’m protecting them and that’s what trademarks are meant for.” 
 
 Others are not so sure. Chocolat author Joanne Harris punned that “such behaviour is considered a dick move” on her blog, adding more seriously that “if it were really possible to legally forbid authors from using a certain common word in their book titles, then the whole publishing industry would be down the drain in a matter of days”. 
 
 The Romance Writers of America is working with an intellectual property lawyer in response to Hopkins’s trademark, and has asked writers contacted by Hopkins to get in touch. Author and retired lawyer Kevin Kneupper has separately filed a legal challenge to have the trademark cancelled, writing that “as a competing author in the same field who has described characters in his books … as ‘cocky’ and who may use this word in … future titles”, the registration is “causing injury and damage”. 
 
 “Romance novels frequently involve ‘alpha males’ as their protagonists – and those alpha males are often described in the titles to the works using adjectives such as ‘cocky’,” says Kneupper’s petition, arguing that “such generic terms cannot be subject to a trademark”. 
 
 A petition to the US patent and trademark office asking it to cancel the “cocky” trademark has since been signed by more than 17,000 people. 

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– A strange fight is brewing in the world of romance novels over the word "cocky." Faleena Hopkins is the author of a 17-book series about the Cocker brothers, and all of those books have the word "cocky" in the title. Last month, Hopkins managed to trademark use of the word, reports the National Post and the Guardian. Hopkins says readers complained they "lost money" thinking they were buying her books—with titles such as Cocky Cowboy, Cocky Soldier, and Cocky Biker—when they bought other novels with "cocky" in the title. "I'm protecting them and that's what trademarks are meant for," she says. But rival authors disagree. A petition calling for the end of the trademark has some 20,000 signatures, reports the New York Daily News, while author and retired lawyer Kevin Kneupper has filed a separate legal challenge. It comes after Hopkins sent letters to authors threatening legal action unless they changed their titles. "I have to admit I am intimidated because I don't have many resources to fight this legally," author Jamila Jasper wrote of #CockyGate on Twitter, sharing a copy of a letter she received about her own book by the name of Cocky Cowboy. Noting she wrote a book with the same title 23 years ago, author Yasmine Galenorn says she "can't imagine what the trademark office was thinking." The Romance Writers of America has hired an intellectual property attorney in hope of a resolution, and Chocolat author Joanne Harris sees it going only one way. "If it were really possible to legally forbid authors from using a certain common word in their book titles, then the whole publishing industry would be down the drain in a matter of days," she writes.