DC Comics have taken legal steps to stop pop star Rihanna from copywriting her real first name of Robyn, citing that it is too close to their established trademark of Robin.

Roraj Trade, who hold multiple trademarks for Rihanna, including her Rebelle By Rihanna and Reb’l Fleur perfumes applied to register “Robyn” back in 2014, with intent to provide “on-line, non- downloadable general feature magazines”.

According to the law blog Pirated Thoughts “On Monday, DC Comics formally opposed Rihanna’s attempt to register her ROBYN trademark. DC Comics claims that Rihanna has had full knowledge of DC Comic’s trademark and is trying to use a mark that is in sight, sound and commercial impression virtually identical to DC Comic’s trademark. DC Comics argues that because of the similarity between the marks, consumers are likely to associate the goods and services provided by Rihanna under the ROBYN trademark with DC Comics’ ROBIN, when there is no association between the two. DC Comics further claims that Rihanna is trading off the enormous goodwill associated with the ROBIN trademark and diluting its distinctiveness.”

How confusing such a scenario would actually be remains to be seen…