That’s not to say Comic-Con’s not concerned with its rivals – or what they’re calling themselves.
San Diego Comic-Con sued Salt Lake Comic Con last year, alleging that organizers of the Utah convention have used Comic-Con’s trademarked name to bolster their growing event.
The Utah convention, whose attendance reportedly hit more than 120,000 last year, argues Comic Con is a general descriptive term that San Diego Comic-Con organizers don’t have a right to hog. (By comparison, San Diego’s event has more than 130,000 Comic-Con attendees.)
Salt Lake City and San Diego aren’t the only U.S. cities with so-called Comic Cons, either.
Salt Lake organizers list more than 90 other events that use that moniker on their convention website.
They include a Denver one that drew a reported 101,500 attendees in May and a Seattle convention that brought in about 80,000 in March. San Diego Comic-Con’s biggest rival, New York Comic Con, says it had 151,000 at last year’s conference.
And more than a dozen other conventions across the nation are hosting similarly themed comic events with different names.
“It’s really about how the marketplace understands this term to be used,”
The term being SLC's usage of the words "Comic Con".
Bottom line: I don't go to SDCC because they sue my local comic con because they used the standard abbreviation for Comic book Convention, "Comic Con".