NBC sues alleged “trademark squatter” for buying the rights to the name Dunder Mifflin
If trademarks are to be believed, the same parent company owns Dunder Mifflin and the ship from Alien

A box of Dunder Mifflin paper Photo: Donald Bowers/Getty Images for Quill.com
In what appears to be a classic Michael Scott-style bungling, NBCUniversal is currently unable to get the trademark on the name “Dunder Mifflin” (the fictional paper company from The Office) because a different company—Jay Kennette Media Group—actually owns it. That comes from Deadline, which says NBCUniversal is appealing the rejection it received from the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office and suing Jay Kennette Media Group for allegedly being a “trademark squatter” that has “built a business based on registering trademarks belonging to others” and then either selling those trademarks back to their “rightful” owners or actually selling merchandise related to the trademarks.