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No. You can totally do that as long as nobody has trademarked it in a similar context.

Only as long as you pass the requirements of local trademark law, which space marine arguably doesn't in most jurisdictions when used with it's generic meaning:

It's fine to call a pane of glass embedded into a wall a window, it's fine to call a certain kind of fruit an apple and it should be fine to call a marine serving on a space ship a space marine, regardless of any trademarks involving these terms.




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