{"id":96,"date":"2006-03-19T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T12:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2006\/03\/19\/when-super-heroes-become-trademarked\/"},"modified":"2006-03-19T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2006-03-19T12:47:09","slug":"when-super-heroes-become-trademarked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2006\/03\/19\/when-super-heroes-become-trademarked\/","title":{"rendered":"When Super Heroes become Trademarked &#2122;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a608'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n Marvel and DC Comics have jointly filed a trademark on the word<br \/>\n &#8220;super-hero&#8221;.   Oh brother.  I guess we now have to label them<br \/>\n Extraodinarily Powered Beings (EPB for short) or<br \/>\n Not Ordinary Entities (NOE). How about I call this Wasted Time Futzing<br \/>\n (WTF).   Or even better WOMBAT (You guys can puzzle this one out yourself)\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/03\/18\/marvel_comics_steali.html\">Read it yourself<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel and DC Comics have jointly filed a trademark on the word &#8220;super-hero&#8221;. Oh brother. I guess we now have to label them Extraodinarily Powered Beings (EPB for short) or Not Ordinary Entities (NOE). How about I call this Wasted Time Futzing (WTF). Or even better WOMBAT (You guys can puzzle this one out yourself) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}