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Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 10.22.2019 | Top Story: WeWork Bailout Would Cost Company $39 billion in Valuation

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SoftBank’s plan to help bail out WeWork would mean not only a takeover by Masa Son’s crew but also “would slash the co-working company’s valuation to about $8 billion”—a staggering drop of nearly $40 billion. The plan would...more

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District Court in California recognizes plausible trademark rights over fictional Star Wars board game

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(Case analysis: Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC v. Ren Ventures Ltd., N.D. Cal., No. 17-7249, 4/24/18) - To assert a successful infringement claim relative to a mark that has arguably never been used as a source identifier for “real...more

Weintraub Tobin

May The Lawsuit Be With You

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Unless you have been living under a rock (and not a rock on Tatooine), then you have heard of a little film called Star Wars, things called lightsabers, the Millennium Falcon, and even droids. But do you know how to play...more

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From Rogue One to Forces of Destiny: A Star Wars Intellectual Property Story

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With last weekend’s release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars is once again living and thriving. Rogue One opened with a most impressive $155 million opening in North America, and $290 million worldwide, making it...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

DOJ and FTC Issue Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals

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Everyone knows that price-fixing among sellers of competing products is illegal, but price-fixing by buyers can also violate the antitrust laws. That is true even in the market for buying services of employees, regardless of...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

The Force is Sometimes Against Us

Julie Gilman Veronese sued Lucasfilm Ltd. in 2009 after she was hired—and then fired—as an assistant to the estate manager at George Lucas’s San Anselmo estate. She claimed she was fired because she was pregnant....more

Proskauer Rose LLP

California Employment Law Notes - January 2013

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In This Issue: - $1.347 Million Award To Former General Counsel For Breach Of Implied Contract Is Upheld - Faigin v. Signature Group Holdings, Inc., 211 Cal. App. 4th 726 (2012) - $114,000 Pregnancy...more

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California Court of Appeal Overturns $1.3 Million in Damages and Attorneys’ Fees against Lucasfilm for Failure to Give Instruction...

On December 10, 2012, in Veronese v. Lucasfilm Ltd., a California Court of Appeal overturned a Marin County jury’s verdict against Lucasfilm based on its finding that several errors in jury instructions prejudicially affected...more

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