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Marvel Challenging Over Inhumans Trademark – And Being Challenged!
Another look around the trademark challenges going on right now.
Marvel Entertainment are challenging Brian M Flynn for his attempt to register a trademark for his Inhumanoids action figures and toy figures, based on the toy and cartoon line from the eighties. Weirdly, Marvel was involved with that cartoon, but their current interest is in its similarity to the Inhumans trademark.
But equally, Marvel is being opposed in its Inhumans trademark registration by Hu Holdings based on its "Be Human" and "Food For Humans" trademarks for food and drinks.
Inhumans has been a rather important franchise for Marvel Comics recently, with a number of Inhuman titles on their slate and a strong presence in their TV series. It's something they are going to be very concerned about keeping trademark control over…