" This use of characters as logos helped to establish the likenesses as trademarks, and was similar to Marvel's contemporaneous use of characters as part of its cover branding.

Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets, owned the trademarks to those characters, and was reluctant to market them at first.

Kurtzman and Elder later tried altering the names and artwork to minimize similarities to Archie characters and trademarks so that it could be reprinted, but they were again threatened with legal action by Archie Comics.

Other Altman trademarks prevalent in the film are the large ensemble cast and the overlapping dialogue with several characters speaking at once.

In 1997 the two signed a deal in which Gaiman would give his share of characters Angela, Medieval Spawn and Cogliostro to McFarlane in exchange of McFarlane's share of British superhero Marvelman ( in reality, what McFarlane actually owned were two trademarks for Miracleman logos, not the character, which would become clear only after the lawsuit concluded ).

Elfquest art copyright 2002 Warp Graphics, Inc. Elfquest, its logos, characters, situations, all related indicia, and their distinctive likenesses are trademarks of Warp Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved.

Henson owned the trademarks to the Muppet characters: he was reluctant to market them at first, but agreed when the CTW promised that the profits from toys, books, and other products were to be used exclusively to fund the CTW.

Although a legal loophole allowed InXile to use the Bard's Tale name and the company had evidently planned to incorporate more elements of the original games, Electronic Arts still owns the original trademarks for the Bard's Tale series itself, and InXile was not legally allowed to use any of the plot, characters or locations featured in the original trilogy.

Elfquest art copyright 2002 Warp Graphics, Inc. Elfquest, its logos, characters, situations, all related indicia, and their distinctive likenesses are trademarks of Warp Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved.

The court ruled that Grosset had the rights to publish the original series of both Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys as they were in print in 1980, but did not own characters or trademarks.

Determination, perseverance and the tendency to overcome hopeless odds are trademarks of the main characters, who, in difficult situations, use humor to further antagonize their opponents or to lift their own spirits.

It is a subsidiary of Danjaq LLC, the holding company responsible for the copyright and trademarks to the Bond characters and elements on screen.

Advertising poster by Frederick Charles Herrick for subway transportation to an exhibition at White City, London, showing an assemblage of characters representing various advertising trademarks and emblems, including Bibendum, the Michelin Man ; Johnnie Walker ; and the Kodak | Kodak Girl, in a subway station displaying advertising posters

Danjaq, LLC ( formerly Danjaq S. A .) is the holding company responsible for the copyright and trademarks to the characters, elements, and other material related to James Bond on screen.

The book introduces many themes and characters that will become the author ’ s trademarks over the years.

* Programming involving characters and trademarks owned by other companies ( such as programming based on properties held by Hasbro and others ).

All DC and / or WildStorm characters and the distinctive likeness ( es ) thereof are trademarks of and copyright DC Comics and / or WildStorm Productions, an imprint of DC Comics.

His characters ( including PiPilu, LuXixi, Shuke, Beita and Luoke ) are registered trademarks.

Popular engravings, including the famous portrait done by Winterhalter, spread the idea, and by the 1870s, the sailor suit had become normal dress for both boys and girls all over the world, and Some Western cartoon and comic characters use a sailor suit as their trademarks ; examples include Popeye, Donald Duck and Spoilt Bastard.

Marc Ewing and Young's partnership started in 1994 when ACC acquired the Red Hat trademarks from Ewing.

Others, such as Chevron, maintain a few Standard-branded stations in specific states in order to retain their trademarks and prevent others from using them.

Since LimeWire is free software, nothing prevents people from making additional forks of LimeWire, unaffected by the shut down, if they wished, as long as it does not use LimeWire trademarks.

Controls on the association of physical locations to well-known exported products, e. g. wine from the Champagne and Bordeaux regions of France, tin-glazed earthenwares from certain cities in Holland, lace from Chantilly, etc., helped to establish a town's place in global commerce — this led to modern trademarks.

On August 16, 2012, the Archdiocese of Atlanta announced that it had been bequeathed a fifty percent stake in the trademarks and literary rights to Gone with the Wind from the estate of Margaret Mitchell's deceased nephew, Joseph Mitchell.

Most old Japanese swords can be traced back to one of five provinces, each of which had its own school, traditions and " trademarks " ( e. g., the swords from Mino province were " from the start famous for their sharpness ").

A service mark differs from a trademark in that the mark is used on the advertising of the service rather than on the packaging or delivery of the service, since there is generally no " package " to place the mark on, which is the practice for trademarks.

Spyglass licensed the technology and trademarks from NCSA for producing their own web browser but never used any of the NCSA Mosaic source code.

ATMs are known by various other names including ATM machine, automated banking machine, " cash dispenser " ( germany ) and various regional variants derived from trademarks on ATM systems held by particular banks.

Transference of relevant Symbian Software Ltd. leases, trademarks and domain names from Nokia to the Symbian Foundation was completed in April 2009.

Like many such trademarks, the clattering closet began as a one-time stunt, but " the closet " was developed carefully, not being overused ( it rarely appeared in more than two consecutive installments, though it never disappeared for the same length, either, at the height of its identification, and it rarely collapsed at exactly the same time from show to show ), and it became the best-known running sound gag in American radio's classic period.

After divestiture AT & T Corp. was prohibited from using the Bell name or logo ( with the notable exception of AT & T's Bell Laboratories ) and those trademarks which would be shared by the RBOCs and the two companies AT & T partially owned.

Additionally, Bell Canada, the former Bell Telephone Company of Canada ( founded in 1880 ) and which started separating from the Bell System in 1956, and completely by 1975, continues to use the " Bell " trademarks, which it owns outright in Canada.

To avoid conflicts with Pern canon and trademarks, each club typically chooses a particular location and timeline as a unique setting different from Anne McCaffrey's established history of Pern.

Java Speech API Markup Language and JSpeech Markup Language identical apart from the change in name, which is made to protect Sun trademarks.

As a result, Burger King provided the Australian franchisee, Jack Cowin, with a list of possible alternative names derived from pre-existing trademarks already registered by Burger King and its then corporate parent Pillsbury, that could be used to name the Australian restaurants.

A crime melodrama of the kind then hugely popular, it heavily borrowed from Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets ( 1974 ), but already displayed one of Wong's principal trademarks in its atmospheric and sometimes expressionistic color palette.

** Most brand names and trademarks are capitalized ( e. g., Coca-Cola, Pepsi ) although some have chosen to deviate from standard rules ( e. g., easyJet, id Software, eBay, iPod ) to be distinctive.

Included were the archives, name, trademarks, website, and fixtures from the Washington Blade offices.

Image itself would own no intellectual property except the company trademarks: its name and its logo ,, which was designed by writer Hank Kanalz Each Image partner founded his own studio, which published under the Image banner but was autonomous from any central editorial control.

* The Royalty Relief approach of Brand Finance, an independent brand valuation consultancy, is based on the assumption that if a company did not own the trademarks that it exploits, it would need to license them from a third party brand owner instead.

Ownership therefore ‘ relieves ’ the company from paying a license fee ( the royalty ) for the use of the third party trademarks.