Whatever else is real or myth with regard to these trolly pranking trademark spats, I think it&#x27;s pretty reasonable to say that the term &quot;cyberspace&quot; emerged amidst - or at least adjacent to - a lot of LSD and Grateful Dead tapes.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;w2.eff.org&#x2F;Misc&#x2F;Publications&#x2F;John_Perry_Barlow&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;being_in_nothingness.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;w2.eff.org&#x2F;Misc&#x2F;Publications&#x2F;John_Perry_Barlow&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;...</a>

Choose Your Own Adventure is also trademarked, though that trademark (initially held by Bantam books, lapsed, and re-registered by another company) did originate the name of the genre

This makes me wonder if omegaverse (if you don’t know, don’t know) is trademarked given its litigious history.

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Meanwhile, &quot;cyberpunk&quot; has been successfully trademarked in the US, even though it describes a literary genre. That&#x27;s like someone trademarking &quot;space opera&quot;, &quot;romantasy&quot;, &quot;film noir&quot; etc.