Ryan Millsap says that, when he and his partner decided to name their new Atlanta business venture Valhalla Studios Atlanta, they had no idea they were treading on the trademark of the Los Angeles motion picture company that produces hit TV show “The Walking Dead.”
Millsap, CEO of Atlanta-based Irinda Capital Management and a principal in Arenda Capital Management in California, said he was surprised to learn last week that Valhalla Studios, which is building a motion picture and television studio complex in Atlanta, would be facing a trademark infringement suit contending it laid claim to the name of Los Angeles-based Valhalla Motion Pictures Inc. and Valhalla Entertainment Inc. in order to capitalize on a nonexistent connection to the phenomenally successful television series set in a zombie-ridden post-apocalyptic Atlanta,
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