One part of my day job is checking on any possible misuse of the company’s registered trademarks. As part of that process I set up a Google Alert for one of the trademarks; which is made up of two fairly common words compounded into a single new word.

When I do get hits its usually people in a similar area of business who have just run the two words together because it "looks cool" rather than any real attempt to misrepresent themselves. (Although there are a few of those around).

Today I got a hit marked as coming from Dark Horse Comics !

Turns out that one of the registered trademarks was included in their solicitation copy for the manga PATH OF THE ASSASSIN VOLUME 10.

Now the usual "cease and desist" notice may be taking it a little too far – but some free comics in recompense? – That may be worth a try.