RE: [Ogf-l] Interest in Free/Community Setting

[Jay Adan]

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>Burkhardt
>Subject: RE: [Ogf-l] Interest in Free/Community Setting


>Lucasfilm sued over people calling Reagan's SDI program star wars (622
>F.Supp. 931 for those who care to look it up) so they'll sue over anything
>remotely touching on their trademark.  No, Lucasfilm did not win the
>case.  But I also don't think Lucasfilm was/is too concerned about
>spending money to defend their trademark.  And even in losing the case,
>Lucasfilm did defend their trademark.

>alec

Actually, this was something that they HAD to do. If they didn't then they
risked losing their trademark simply by not protecting it.

More telling is the lawsuit against Battlestar Galactica. Wasn't that one of
the first "look and feel" lawsuits?


- Jay Adan

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