However, the news the term has been trademarked for clothing is particularly intriguing as it suggests that King might be looking to follow the example of Rovio, the creators of Angry Birds - the Finnish company has capitalised on the success of their own app with an extensive range of merchandise from board games to t-shirts.
It's highly unlikely, for example, that the creator of the Twitter account containing the allegations will ever have to face the music for posting them.
Shiny, for example, was the creator of classic like "Earthworm Jim," "Sacrifice, MDK" and "Enter the Matrix," while The Collective had previously put out titles like "Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb," "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith," and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
It's hard to imagine, for example, that Dov Weinstein, the creator of "Tiny Ninja Macbeth," an enactment of the Scottish play using inch-high plastic figurines on a black tabletop, envisions himself on, say, a Broadway stage.
For example, the creator of Spooks, David Wolstencroft, teaming up with Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, showrunners of Homeland, although that US series is already a transnational collaboration with Gideon Raff, who invented the Israeli original, Hatufim.
Only one century ago, for example, Cardinal John Henry Newman, the creator of the Catholic University in Dublin, propounded a definition of the function of the ideal university that soon became famous.
He points to email as an example (and as the creator of Gmail, he knows what he's talking about).
For example, the creator of Lucas the Spider turned his character into a plushie, and sold more than 60,000 units, making over $1 million in profit in just 18 days.
If we follow the example of its creators and allow ourselves to dream alongside others, our personal worlds just might get bigger, too.
Other notable examples are Mirabilis, the creator of the popular ICQ chat network, which was acquired by America Online aol in 1998 for $400 million, and Check Point Software Technologies chkp, Israel's largest tech company, which has become a world leader in networking security software ($168.8 million in revenue for the first six months of this year).
