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"When companies like the defendant in this case try to make a profit by confusing fans and flagrantly violating our trademark rights, we have to take action," said Howard Roffman, President of Lucas Licensing, which oversees the global Star Wars merchandise business that was established after the success of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope in 1977.

Bygone Sports answered with counter charges a month later, arguing that Major League Baseball failed to check to see if anyone else had rights to the name and that MLB could have challenged the Atlanta-based company's September 2002 trademark application.

The Microsoft Corporation settled a trademark lawsuit today, agreeing to pay $5 million for the right to continue using the name Internet Explorer for its World Wide Web browser. On the second day of a Federal jury trial in a Chicago, Microsoft reached a settlement with lawyers for Synet Inc., a defunct Illinois software company that said it had the the right to the trademark.

Cache La Poudre attorney Luke Santangelo said in an interview that the lawsuit asks $132 million, which he estimated is Land O'Lakes' profit from the Profile feed over the last two years. Santangelo also claimed his client is entitled to triple that amount because Land O'Lakes intentionally used Cache La Poudre's trademark.

Harley Davidson refused Mr. Lenz’s offer and will now have to pay Mr. Lenz approximately 40% of the sales price of every Harley Davidson Sportster that was sold in Mexico since 1989.

The defendant in the Ummel case is Mike Little, a veteran agent with ReMax Associates. He will argue that Marty Ummel, who brought the case with her husband, Vernon, is trying to shift the blame for the couple’s own failures of research and due diligence.

Three St. Paul landlords, Frank Steinhauser, Tom Gallagher, and Sandra Harrilal, are suing the City of St. Paul for selective and illegal housing-code enforcement under the RICO, Fair Housing, Civil Rights, Antitrust, Abuse of Process, and Tortious Interference with Contract and Business Expediency laws.

An agent for Re/Max International, Polin was honored at the company's convention in Atlanta last March with the Chairman's Club Award. That put her in an elite group - fewer than 1,400 of Re/Max's 120,000 agents worldwide - who had gross commissions last year of at least $500,000.

A district attorney in Colorado has indicted RE/MAX 100 real estate professional Ricardo Medina and independent loan officers Nancy Rios and Perla Alvarado on charges of forgery, theft, and conspiracy under the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act, according to the National Assn. of REALTORS®. (Note that NAR has already stripped the REALTOR® designation from Medina in its press release.)

DES MOINES, Iowa -- A high-profile Des Moines area Realtor has been indicted this week for fraud of more than $70,000. Leonard Fazio of West Des Moines, is a Realtor with Re/Max A-1 Best Realtors in Urbandale.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that it has charged RE/MAX Realty 100, RE/MAX real estate broker Phyllis Hasenstab, and homeowner Edith Halvorsen with violating the Fair Housing Act by allegedly refusing to permit an African-American woman to view a home that was for sale.

Michael Eliasof, 63, of Mahwah, once a top-producing real estate agent for Re/Max Property Center in Paramus, admitted orchestrating the sales of the houses in Paterson using phony paperwork in no-money-down subprime deals that quickly collapsed, leaving lenders holding worthless loans.

Lieff Cabraser is investigating claims that major real estate brokerages in California, including Coldwell Banker, Century 21, ERA, Intero, Lyon, Prudential California Realty and Re/Max of California and Hawaii, received indirect kickbacks of real estate closing costs paid by sellers of residential property, in violation of federal law.

Earlier this year, an African-American man who asserted that a realty company denied him a real estate franchise because of his race, won a $100,000 jury award against a Colorado real estate company. An all-white federal jury awarded the money to Edward Tyler after a six-day trial in February 1998. Tyler filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division before he filed his federal lawsuit.

A lawsuit has been filed by Quesnel-born Sikh businessman Satinder Paul Singh Dhillon, 29, in The Supreme Court of British Columbia, alleging that Re/Max's Abbotsford, B.C. affiliate, and the Sutton Group-Medallion Realty from Surrey, B.C. conspired with several other Defendants to defraud the Plaintiff.

This is a fascinating but sad story about the Skippy cartoon character, trademark and years of legal action.

Trademark lawsuit by RE/FUND against RE/MAX.

Trademark infringement lawsuit by All Cities Realty against Re/Max All Cities Realty.