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Really, Comic-Con International, you failed to get a Trademark in 1995 for the term "Comic Con," but you're issuing a cease-and-desist on Salt Lake City's Comic Con in 2014 for daring to advertise in your vicinity? \u00a0As if it's somehow going to damage your #1 position in US comic book conventions? \u00a0<\/p>\n

I hate to tell you this, but, beyond the US Trademark office, nobody treats the term "comic con" as anything but a generic term, hyphens are not.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bah.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Scott Randel<\/a><\/span>)\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Comic-book convention organizers clash over name<\/a>
\n Organizers of two of the biggest comic-book conventions in the country are clashing over their names.\n <\/p>\n

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Really, Comic-Con International, you failed to get a Trademark in 1995 for the term "Comic Con," but you're issuing a cease-and-desist on Salt Lake City's Comic Con in 2014 for daring to advertise in your vicinity? \u00a0As if it's somehow going to damage your #1 position in US comic book conventions? \u00a0 I hate to … Continue reading “A Comic [Book] Con[vention] by Any Other Name”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,80,79],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-43902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-commercial","category-media-intellectual-property","tag-124"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8903,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/27\/super.html","url_meta":{"origin":43902,"position":0},"title":"Super!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Mar-06 1:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The LA Times is (rightly) annoyed by continuing efforts by Marvel and DC to lock down the term \"super hero\" with a trademark. 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