The Supreme Court just handed down a decision chock full of Spider-Man references.

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled against the maker of a Spider-Man toy that shot silly string out of a bracelet. The court found that the toy maker could not earn royalty payments from Disney's Marvel Entertainment since the toy maker's patent expired.

In an opinion for the court, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan made repeated references to the comic series, quoting a famous line by Spider-Man's Uncle Ben and the theme song from the original 1960s Spider-Man cartoon.

As the Hollywood Reporter notes, toymaker Stephen Kimble sued Marvel in the 1990's after the company began making a toy very similar to Kimble's Web Blaster. They reached an agreement to give Kimble a cut of sales, but he claimed that he was entitled to more money after Marvel licensed the toy to Hasbro.

The court rejected Kimble's claim, upholding a 50-year-old patent law that found that patent holders aren't entitled to royalties after a patent expires.