trademark Archives

Despite not publishing Fantastic Four comic books anymore, Marvel Comics has recently contested a trademark registration from another comic book publisher for the name "Mister Fantastic". It has also registered a trademark for "The Invisible Woman", possibly in the light of a rather uniquely granted license to Hasbro to create an Invisible Woman comic book based[...]

Because the Academy of Martial Arts has chosen this as their logo, and to trademark it. And, in colour, put it to use. Well… I expect Marvel Comics will be interested in showing these previously used and registered imagery… I think Marvel might just win, don't you? They do have all the moves…   [...]

But one thing they do co-operate over is defending the use of the phrase "super hero" in the title of – well, anything not published by Marvel or DC. As it stands there are trademarks that both Marvel and DC are working together to challenge for Silicon Super Heroes by David Martini Jason Brodie for Super[...]

As Warners and JK Rowling have, together,trademarked the words and have now created a logo for "J.K Rowling's Wizarding World" and registered it for, well, basically everything Including comic books. Anyway, it looks like this is Warners' new all-in phrase for JK's work that covers not only Harry Potter but the worlds outside of Hogwarts being explored in the[...]

Who have just registered a trademark for the phrase "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" for "Shirts, tops, underwear and skirts." Tut tut tut To stop this kind of thing I guess, but even so… Here is the original use. And a reminder from the current Amazing Spider-Man writer. I give bonus points to anyone who knows it's "With[...]

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But when it comes to the trademarks it's a different story. Although many consider that the jointly held trademark for the words "super hero" by Marvel and DC may not that be defensible in court, they have jointly registered it, and jointly defend it against other people wanting to use it in their own trademarks. Such as[...]

Marvel aren't quite as trigger happy DC Comics over challenging the registration of trademarks right now – and seem to be the subject of cases more than they are instigators. But they are challenging Tony Tune for registering the name "Marvelasy" as a trademark for Large toy building blocks; Toy building blocks, which can be connected to each[...]

As a result of their own product line… Meanwhile, Marvel has another registered gaming trademark it would like to challenge Games Workshop over it seems. A happy new year for all lawyers! Recently Marvel attempted to register the word "Illuminati" for its comic book line It's a name they have used in recent years and have just[...]

It's not just DC Comics that are all up in trademark kerfuffles, Marvel have them too. Indeed they are being challenged by the Swiss manufacturer of the Omega watches, over Marvel's attempt to register the trademark for "Omega The Unknown." The character, created by by Steve Gerber, Mary Skrenes and Jim Mooney, in an ill-fated but fondly remembered series in 1975-1977 was revived thirty[...]

Prison in Tracy, and presented of a TED Talk inside Ironwood State Prison hosted by Richard Branson, she was accepted into the Women's Media Center Progressive Women's Voices Class of 2014. She is also trying to register the trademark for "Justice League"  for providing educational demonstrations in the field of civil and human rights[...]

DC Comics are currently trying to challenge one of their own customers, a shirt company for trying to trademark their name Sons Of Gotham Well, the phrase is rather prevalent in the current Gotham TV show.   They are also challenging Cenntro Automotive Corporation for trademarking electric cars called "Gotham". A nineteeth century nickname for New York, it implies[...]

2015 saw 800 people running, many in costumes, which looked like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NMOQKJ0wocVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: 2015 Supermanny Shuffle 5k "Heroes vs Villains" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NMOQKJ0woc) Today they are also holding a special Black Friday Sale on running in the next race on May 1st for those who want to sign up.. Charity fundraisers do have[...]

The European Union have rejected a trademark application for the word 'Zorro' Here's the documentation in question, recently published. In May 2013, Robert Cabell author of Z — The Musical of Zorro received legal letters, Zorro Productions Inc, a company that claims to have inherited rights from Johnston McCulley's first Zorro story from 1919 and has been licensing those rights[...]

Google Trends lists Harley Quinn as the most searched for Hallowe'en costume. Which may be why DC Comics has registered Harley Quinn, along with Poison

A couple of years ago, Marvel Comics applied to register the trademark for "Registered Gifted" Ahead of the Agents Of SHIELD TV show, it was used as a handy way to talk about the superpowered without saying "mutant". And it looked as if this was the term that was going it be used on the TV[...]

To accompany Guardians Of The Galaxy, Guardian Of The Galaxy Team-Up, Guardians 3000, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Drax, Star-Lord and Gamora, looks like we may have yet another Guardians book to add to the line-up. But it might be with a very different line-up. Marvel Comics have trademarked the name Guardians Of Infinity for an upcoming comic book[...]

Which seems a good a time as any to register the trademark for the name for "Organizing and conducting conventions, exhibitions, and gatherings for entertainment purposes and in the fields of artwork, animation, comic books, fantasy, gaming, popular culture, science fiction, and television and film" and for "Comic books, commemorative comic books, posters, commemorative posters" and[...]

In fact, one of the big delays for Blizzard Entertainment was issues with their trademark registration being denied Twice Could it have been that the earlier speculation that the trademark registration issues were having problems due to other, similar video games was off base? Then, this official announcement was made: Today, CAE Studios is proud to announce the[...]

Well, they have plenty of black and white artwork just sitting on their servers they could repurpose and rename. And they have registred the trademark for the popular phrase associated with some of books, Color Your Own, solely for comic books. So as well as the announced volumes, would we be about to get regular comic books in plain[...]

The for the New 52 relaunch we got Justice League and Justice League International – and with the June mini-relaunch we have a Justice League Of America again. Now they have registered a trademark for JLA for downloadable publications in the nature of books featuring characters from animated, action adventure, comedy and/or drama features, comic books, graphic[...]

Last week, Marvel Comics registered the name "Point One" for "Comic books; printed periodicals in the field of comic book stories and artwork" citung te

Outcast, the Image/Skybound comic book by Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta has hit a further trademark bump. Valiant Entertainment, holder of the comic book trademark for The Outcast – a one shot comic by Jesse Berdinka and Norm Breyfogle from the nineties, currently on sale digitally, had already forced Boom! Studios to change the title of their planned comic Outcast to Valen[...]

Yesterday, DC Comics filed to register the Superman 'S' symbol as a trademark for belt buckles. It looks as if someone might have been going through their trademark on the symbol in recent days for… some unknown reason… and found it it was lacking in their paperwork. But not only that, it's also filed paperwork to register[...]

It's always fun to follow an official trademark application It can show the intent of a publisher, but also how much they care about the trademark being applied for It costs money, so it's often not done willy nilly, often over things that will make the publisher lots of money Such as movies. But in this[...]

So DC Comics have registered a trademark on an image I haven't got access to the image in question But it is described as "NIGHTWING on a bat." Which sound like the current DC Comics logo for the comic. Looks like it has been registered for Clothing for men, women and children – namely, shirts, t-shirts, sweatshirts, jogging[...]

Earlier this year, Twentieth Century Fox registered a trademark for the word "Gotham" for; Entertainment services in the nature of a television series featuring drama; providing on-line information in the field of television and video entertainment featuring drama via the Internet; entertainment services in the nature of non-downloadable videos and images featuring television shows transmitted via[...]

  Does Marvel have a Fantomex title on the way? They have register trademarked the name of the X-Force character recently for comics and comics-related stuff, and Marvel usually does that kind of thing when they have stuff planned… Or they don;t want to take any chances with Fantomas. Word Mark FANTOMEX Goods and Services IC 016[...]

DC Comics appealed over the decision to grant them a trademark for this back in July last year, and this week Justice Annabelle Bennett ordered that the trademark be refused. Justice Bennett considered several meanings of the word "superman", including the Macquarie Dictionary's definition, which refers to Nietzsche's concept of "an ideal human being who by[...]