{"id":128197,"date":"2024-09-29T20:21:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/29\/dc-marvel-lose-super-hero-trademark\/"},"modified":"2024-09-29T20:21:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:21:35","slug":"dc-marvel-lose-super-hero-trademark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/29\/dc-marvel-lose-super-hero-trademark\/","title":{"rendered":"DC\/Marvel lose &#8216;Super Hero&#8217; trademark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Marvel and DC have lost the trademark for the word \u201csuperhero\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/danSmLiYKG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/danSmLiYKG<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0NdGfc6uKj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/0NdGfc6uKj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/1840444372883583376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">September 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-After DC attempted to block SJ Richold&#8217;s efforts to promote The Super Babies\u2014a team of superpowered superhero babies, Richolds took them to court over the word &#8216;Super Hero&#8217;&#8230;.and won.<\/p>\n<p>-DC\/Marvel were granted the jointly owned Trademark by US authorities in 1979\/1980.<\/p>\n<p>-Neither bothered to respond to Court responds proving why they should hold sole custody over the tradmark.<\/p>\n<p>-In the past DC\/Marvel were able to successfully block:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>a US company called The Lucky Drink Company Pty Ltd filed for &#8220;Superhero Beer&#8221; and &#8220;Superhero Cola&#8221;.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>US comic book publisher GeekPunk was forced to change the planned title of their comic, Super Hero Happy Hour, to Hero Happy Hour.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>&#8220;Superhero Sam&#8221; was filed for charitable fundraising&#8221;.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>US company HP Assets Holdings Pty Ltd filed an application for &#8220;Superhero&#8221; for pizzas<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Ray Felix self-published &#8220;A World Without Superheroes&#8221; in the USA and applied for a trademark. DC Comics and Marvel applied for default judgment against Mr. Felix and were successful. Felix withdrew the application.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/1840444372883583376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Source<\/a><br \/> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/129271929.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel and DC have lost the trademark for the word \u201csuperhero\u201d (Source: https:\/\/t.co\/danSmLiYKG) pic.twitter.com\/0NdGfc6uKj \u2014 DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) September 29, 2024 -After DC attempted to block SJ Richold&#8217;s efforts to promote The Super Babies\u2014a team of superpowered superhero babies, Richolds took them to court over the word &#8216;Super Hero&#8217;&#8230;.and won. -DC\/Marvel were granted the jointly owned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-128197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}