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Gotham City Pizza Opens On Ormond Beach, Florida

Currently, DC Comics is in trademark dispute with the owners of Gotham Gym, the life coaching services The Wonder Woman Effect, the clothes company Bruce Waynes, the digital currency Kryptobit, Dark Knight wines, and many other companies and individuals trying to get trademarks for their products and service that are either deliberately or accidentally similar in some way to registered DC Comics trademarks. Could this be their next target?

Gotham City Pizza has opened this past weekend on Ormond Beach and is very open about their comic book inspiration. And has been getting coverage from the Ormond Beach Observer:

"The pizzeria, owned by Marco Falleta, kicked off their grand opening on Saturday, Aug. 5, with cosplayers, local comic book artists and of course, pizza. The restaurant, located on 197 N. Yonge St., was crowded shortly after noon with people of all ages, some even in costume.

Gotham City Pizza's opening also featured Tim Proctor, who aside from being an artist also played a walker in the "The Walking Dead," Ormond Beach comic book artist Steve Conley, and Orlando illustrator Humphrey Ching. Comic books were also for sale outside the pizzeria by local comics store, Cloak and Dagger."

And the Daytona Beach News Journal, with added detail that it's a young family business from parents with quadruplets:

"At the Fallettas' Port Orange home, the Caped Crusader is immortalized in a wall-sized mural in the bedroom of the couple's 2-1/2-year-old son, Nick, the youngest of five children that also include attention-grabbing quadruplets — all girls — who will be 5 on their next shared birthday in January. There's a room filled with Batman and other comic-book collectibles nearby in dad's study."

And now they have a new place to host their collections — with added cheese.

Their menu is themed…

…and they have a very strong comic book aesthetic and livery.

And they seem to have a hit on their hands, with a strong store opening,

Then selling out and having to go to a second print.

So. word of advice: all the media coverage of the store's opening will have but the store on the company's radar. But often they will get ignored unless they try and get a trademark registration for their name. So my best recommendation is, don't try for a trademark!

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