{"id":1507,"date":"2016-10-21T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2016-10-21T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T11:51:00","slug":"lucasfilm-files-lawsuit-to-protect-intellectual-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/21\/lucasfilm-files-lawsuit-to-protect-intellectual-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm Files Lawsuit to Protect Intellectual Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lucasfilm filed a lawsuit last week against New York Jedi and Lightsaber Academy alleging that the businesses\u2019 use of the words \u201cJedi\u201d and \u201clightsaber\u201d along with a Jedi Order logo are in violation of intellectual property laws.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Brown, aka\u00a0Flynn Michael, is identified as the man behind the businesses. \u00a0It says he had been denied licensing permision yet continued to operate even after\u00a0receiving multiple cease-and-desist letters.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Lucasfilm declined to comment on f the lawsuit but said: \u201cWe protect our intellectual property rights vigorously and we take reports of suspected infringement seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed last week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco and seeks up to $2 million in damages for each trademark infringement.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s highest court\u00a0ruled against Lucas in a lawsuit over replica Stormtrooper costumes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">&nbsp; Lucasfilm filed a lawsuit last week against New York Jedi and Lightsaber Academy alleging that the businesses\u2019 use of the words \u201cJedi\u201d and \u201clightsaber\u201d along with a Jedi Order logo are in violation of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/21\/lucasfilm-files-lawsuit-to-protect-intellectual-property\/\" title=\"Lucasfilm Files Lawsuit to Protect Intellectual Property\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[987,991,985,989,990,984,988,986],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-usa","tag-copyrights","tag-disney","tag-intellectual-property","tag-jedi","tag-lightsaber","tag-lucasfilm","tag-michael-brown","tag-trademark-infringement","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}