User blog comment:Titanollante/Zilla 1998 is Godzilla/@comment-25141842-20141129104231/@comment-5989773-20141129215150

Being the same legal entity means same character legally speaking. And it still is. It was not later trademarked as a separate entity and immediately undone, it was that Toho made a brand new monsters, essentially a parody (not exactly or legally because it was its own entity) that was very similar and trademarked that hoping to "unwas" the being in 1998 hoping people would forget about it but did not,