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breakdown_dismissal_letter [2018/12/16 14:05] – Updates with pre-motion conference rescheduled to Jan 8 Carlos Pedrazabreakdown_dismissal_letter [2019/09/20 12:38] (current) – [Unprotected Elements] Carlos Pedraza
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-<fs smaller>**SUPERFICIAL SIMILARITIES?** The defense's grounds for dismissing the copyright lawsuit against //Star Trek: Discovery// dismiss the similarities between it and the Tardigrades videogame as "generic."</fs>+<fs smaller>**SUPERFICIAL SIMILARITIES?** The defense's grounds for dismissing the copyright lawsuit against //Star Trek: Discovery// call the similarities between it and the Tardigrades videogame "generic."</fs> 
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 +<fs x-small>DECEMBER 6, 2018<wrap indent> |</wrap><wrap indent> ESTIMATED READING TIME 13 MINS</wrap></fs>
  
 ====== The Case For and Against Dismissing the Tardigrades Suit ====== ====== The Case For and Against Dismissing the Tardigrades Suit ======
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-<fs smaller>**//See also: [[tardigrades_pre_motion|CBS Seeks Meeting with Judge to Dismiss Copyright Case Against Discovery]]//**</fs>+<fs smaller>**//See also: [[tardigrades_pre_motion|CBS Seeks Meeting with Judge to Dismiss Copyright Case Against Discovery]] and [[tardigrades_third_complaint|Copyright Lawsuit Names Discovery Writer as Possible Link]]//**</fs>
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 > The court in //Ollie// held that the two figures were wholly different … "although the Dominoid and Donny Domino are similar, in that their bodies consist of a domino with one dot in the top square and two dots in the bottom square, the court find the this similarity is attributable to the fact that both works used Domino's trademarked domino as the body. … However, the humanizing of a domino is an idea not subject to copyright protection."((Abdin v. CBS Broadcasting Inc. et al., Docket 39, p. 3, 12/05/18.)) > The court in //Ollie// held that the two figures were wholly different … "although the Dominoid and Donny Domino are similar, in that their bodies consist of a domino with one dot in the top square and two dots in the bottom square, the court find the this similarity is attributable to the fact that both works used Domino's trademarked domino as the body. … However, the humanizing of a domino is an idea not subject to copyright protection."((Abdin v. CBS Broadcasting Inc. et al., Docket 39, p. 3, 12/05/18.))
  
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 That last sentence, however, is precisely how Hwang cited the //Ollie// case. That last sentence, however, is precisely how Hwang cited the //Ollie// case.
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