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Helix Industries (or, Number Twenty-Three the Second)

Just below this is my rant on the movie The Number 23, and how it was suspiciously close to my NaNo-novel #23. Well, if you've looked at my links page recently you'll see that I've started adapting #23 into a comic, Helix Industries. I'm quite fond of this new title. It refers to the corporation owned by the main antagonist of the story.
So, not too long ago I submitted my site to Google. A couple of weeks ago (I've been slow at updating this site, haven't I?) I did a search to see if my site had been listed yet. And it turns out that Helix Industries is the name of a real company. They make cleaning supplies.

I give up.

Fortunately, I think I've got trademark law on my side here. I'm not making cleaning supplies, and they're not making comics, so we don't step on each others toes. This actually carries some weight legally--trademark law prevents me from selling cleaning supplies under that name, but doesn't prevent me from creating, say, a burger resteraunt called Nike, since Nike makes shoes and not burgers. (This is why Apple Records and Apple Computers had a big fight when iTunes was launched.)
But still. This is getting ridiculous.

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