IPNews® – Lucasfilm filed a lawsuit this month against the owner of New York Jedi and Lightsaber Academy for trademark infringement.
The businesses previously sought a license from Lucasfilm but were denied. Despite several cease and desist letters from Lucasfilm, the New York and San Francisco based entities continued to use the Lightsaber and Jedi
IPNews® -The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in Disney’s favor in a case involving the TINKERBELL trademark.
The 2nd Circuit held that Disney had the unfettered right to buy the TINKERBELL trademark despite the existence of an ongoing license to a third company – Icebox-Scoops, Inc. Icebox-Scoops had claimed that it
IPNews® – A group of major television and movie studios told a Manhattan federal judge on Monday that they deserve summary judgment on their claims that Lime Wire LLC induced widespread copyright infringement on its users’ part by allowing rampant illegally downloading of the studios’ shows and films.
The studios asked for the same ruling
IPNews® – Disney Enterprises Inc. prevailed on Thursday in a copyright infringement lawsuit in Missouri federal court accusing it of misappropriating the titles and story lines of its 2009 and 2010 “Santa Paws” movies from a 1991 illustrated Christmas story.
Disney’s movies are not substantially similar to the protected expression in the plaintiffs’ short story
IPNews® – Facebook Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Walt Disney Co. are the targets of new patent infringement lawsuits the Regents of the University of California filed on Wednesday over interactive hypermedia technology.
All three companies are allegedly using patented university technology for displaying interactive information through web pages or software, the university claims in
IPNews® – A Southern California party costume business is facing copyright and trademark infringement claims from Disney Enterprises Inc., DC Comics and Sanrio Inc.
The entertainment companies claim The Party Animals LLC is selling, renting and distributing costumes featuring trademarked and copyrighted characters including Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Superman, Batman and Hello Kitty. To continue
Los Angeles – After we blogged earlier this week about Disney applying to trademark “Seal Team 6” in order to capitalize on the heroism of the Navy Seals that were responsible for killing bin Laden, it quickly did an about-face by filing express abandonments for all three trademark applications.
Apparently, Disney received a bit
San Diego – Ever since the recent killing of Osama bin Laden, there has been a race to capitalize on the heroism of the U.S. Navy Seals. Just days after bin Laden succumbed in a firefight with what was identified as the “Seal Team 6”, Disney filed a trademark application for it.
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