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DC Comics Vs. Omex Agrifluids Over The Trademark To Superman

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Omex Agrifluids makes all kind of chemical products including fertilisers. And it had a manganese-based product that inspires a rather clever name. Because the symbol for the element Manganese is Mn. And this fertiliser, they wanted everyone to know was tip-top. So someone in marketing came up with this name.

DC Comics Vs. Omex Agrifluids Over The Trademark To SupermanSuperMn. Isn't that clever? That was back in 2011. They trademarked it, no one complained, they had a winner. But this year, someone in marketing thiught, well, if they can get away with trademarking SuperMn and no one complains, how about…

DC Comics Vs. Omex Agrifluids Over The Trademark To Superman

And… suddenly some lawyers at DC Comics and Warner Bros has some work to do over Labor Day weekend, appropriately, launching an appeal to the US Trademark folk asking for an extension to oppose this trademark application from Omex Agrifluids.

Silly bunnies. Don't they know that Superman fertiliser is made from Kinder Eggs?

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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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