DC Comics BLOCKS Rihanna!!!

DC Comics BLOCKS Rihanna, the company that owns Batman has swooped down on “Pour It Up” singer from trademarking her real in a new battle between Robin vs. Robyn!

CelebNMusic247.com has this report via PageSix:

DC Entertainment, the company that owns Batman, has swooped down to block Rihanna from trademarking her real first name — Robyn — saying it’s too similar to the superhero’s trusty sidekick, Robin.

The “Rude Boy” singer doesn’t look a thing like the Boy Wonder — and their names are spelled differently — but DC wants to stop her company from staking a claim to her name, according to a complaint filed in the US Patent and Trademark Office May 11.
The name is “virtually identical” to the crime-fighting comic book character and “consumers are likely to be deceived,” DC Comics, a division of Warner Brothers, said in the filing.

Rihanna’s firm Roraj Trade — which has trademarked products such as her Reb’L Fleur perfume — tried to register the name on June 23, 2014, according to the papers.

The 27-year-old pop star — whose real name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty — had hoped to use it to launch an online feature magazine venture, the trademark papers state.

But DC Comics argued that the publication would tarnish the fictional Robin’s good name, according to the complaint.

Robin is one half of a “world-famous” and decades-old “Dynamic Duo” who has “appeared alongside Batman, Batgirl, The Joker, Catwoman and The Penguin,” the complaint states.

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