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Update: Snooki wants to trademark ‘I Snook the Night’

Jersey Shore's Snooki has suffered a partial setback in her potential literary career - but not her shots at creating "I Snook the Night" panties or "Snookit" self-tanning spray.

Jersey Shore's Snooki has suffered a partial setback in her potential literary career - but not her shots at creating "I Snook the Night" panties or "Snookit" self-tanning spray.

Nicole Polizzi apparently has a lot of big ideas, according to a series of trademark applications.

The only rejection so far has been her bid to tie up "Snooki" for "printed matter, namely books." But a cat has dibs, the USPTO ruled. A fictional cat. In a single children's picture book that couldn't crack the top 6.8 million best-sellers on Amazon.com.

Not only does the cat spell its name differently, but it even tumbles overboard in Adventures of Snooky Under the Sea (2004).

Reason for a hissy fit? Rrrow!

Could this mean we'll never get to read a memoir with a title like, Lookie, Lookie, Lookie, My Name Is Snooki?

Fear not. She's also applied to trademark "Snookin for Love" for use in books, and through radio and TV.

Snookin for Love has been rumored to be a title of a possible Pilozzi-starring reality show.

Bet there's no children's book with that title.

"I Snook the Night" (aren't you sorry you didn't think of this first?) could be used for clothing items, "namely, shirts, sweat pants, sweat shirts, track suits and underwear" as well as "shot glasses, cups."

"Snookit" would cover shampoo, conditional, styling gel, hair spray, "self tanner tanning spray," and "hair accessories and hair ornaments, namely, hair ties, hair combs, hair clips, and hair bumps."

The busty 22-year-old is known for her long, poufy black hair.

A fifth application would reserve "Snook A-Like" for sunglasses, cases and covers for cell phones and portable music players, as well as hoodies and hats.

Wow, you could have Snooky stuff from head to toe, if such dreams became reality beyond reality TV.

The trademark folks didn't totally reject "Snooki" by itself, either. It seems to be acceptable for "entertainment in the nature of personal appearances by a television personality."

Take that, cat!

Except for the kitty conflict, the coast seems clear for the other applications, says trademark attorney Devon White of Raleigh, N.C.

"It appears all of them have been reviewed" and the only objections seem to be over "technical issues which are generally easily cured," she said.

Polizzi might even have the last laugh over the cat, if the USPTO can be persuaded the public's not likely to confuse her books with picture books for kids.

"There's a reasonable chance," White said.

The show, in its second season, is set in Seaside Heights, N.J., where Snooki was arrested late last month on a disorderly conduct charge and where sharks have forced swimmers out the water.