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Marvel Files Opposition To Hasbro Over Dire Wraiths Trademark

We reported that this was very possible last year, but now it's all official. Last week the US Patent and Trademark office informed Hasbro that Marvel Comics was opposing their attempt to register "Dire Wraiths", the shapeshifting villains of the ROM Universe, created for the ROM comic book published by Marvel in the eighties, and which have continued to run around the Marvel Universe since..

Here are the pertinent parts of the filed document.

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Which way would you decide?


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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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