Meghan Markle could be set to relaunch her personal lifestyle blog The Tig after applying to reactivate the trademark name.
Prior to becoming a member of the Royal Family, the Duchess of Sussex posted for years about her thoughts on various topics like feminism and travel - as well as showcasing recipes and uploading candid holiday snaps.
She also often gushed about her mum Doria Ragland and dad Thomas Markle - although she is now estranged from the latter.
Meghan shut the blog down months before becoming engaged to Prince Harry in 2017.
The former Hollywood actor, 40, described the site as a "passion project" which eventually "evolved into an amazing community of inspiration, support, fun and frivolity".
LA lawyer Marjorie Witter Norman filed a new application to trademark the name in July last year, according to legal records, reports the Daily Mail.
It was filed under a Delaware-based holding company called Frim Fram Inc, linked to Meghan's business manager Andrew Meyer.
A similar application filed in 2019 expired last year.
Her reps said at the time: "The lasting trademark is to prevent false branding, to avoid others purporting to be the Duchess or affiliated with her."
It's a move which has raised hopes that the Duchess of Sussex - who stepped down as a working royal along with Harry in March 2020 - may one day re-launch the blog.
Weeks after the Sussexes made the move over the Atlantic, royal expert Myka Meier predicted Meghan would launch a new blog in a similar style to The Tig to rival similar sites like Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop.
The Tig's most popular post was entitled "How To Be Both", in which Meghan offered her candid thoughts on how to juggle "celebrity life" with "giving back" and doing her "day job".
The 2,000-word piece was published in October 2016, months after starting her relationship with Harry.
In another post, that January, she described some of her own habits she considered "unladylike" and that she'd like to give up, as part of her New Year's resolutions.
She wrote: "Run a marathon. Stop biting my nails. Stop swearing. Re-learn French. These make my New Year’s resolution list nearly (AKA actually every) single year.
"The marathon hasn't happened. The swearing comes in lulls triggered by being overworked or feeling mighty cheeky after a couple of drinks.
"Then there's the French – a language I studied through high school and then lost as I immersed myself in speaking Spanish with the Argentinians during my stint in Buenos Aires.
"I have put my little Rosetta Stone headset in my eager ears every year, resolving to do interviews en français, but much to my chagrin, it hasn't stuck."
Meghan - who starred in legal drama Suits from 2011 to 2017 - launched the blog in 2014 and named the site after her favourite Tignanello wine.
Recalling her first sip, she wrote: "It was an ah-ha moment at its finest. For me, it became a 'Tig' moment – a moment of getting it."
