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As of 4/23, in what may be the first of many such filings, WWE officially made their first move to oppose Cody Runnel's registration of trademarks for "Slamboree" and "The Match Beyond." trademarks.
WWE requested an extension to answer and were granted that through 7/22 to file an official opposition or to request another extension for those trademarks.
Slamboree was a PPV created by Dusty Rhodes while working for World Championship Wrestling. The Match Beyond was a term created for the Wargrames match when it debuted in July 1987 for Jim Crockett Promotions. Rhodes was in charge of creative for JCP at the time. Turner Broadcasting purchased JCP, creating WCW. They sold WCW to the WWF (now WWE) in March 2001 with WWE acquiring their intellctual property.
Cody has noted he filed trademarks on some of his father's creations that were sitting there, unused with The Match Beyond and Slamboree among them.
Cody filed a trademark on his former WWE ring name "Cody Rhodes" last week, just 24 hours after WWE's trademark on the name expired.
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