Don’t Mess with George Lucas’ Storm Troopers

The lawyers from George Lucas’ Lucasfilm Ltd. are busy protecting the iconic Star Wars Storm Troopers in a British court.  It seems that the artist who sculpted the original molds for the Storm Trooper helmet and armor has been reselling replicas on his website.  George Lucas cried trademark infringement and won a $20 million lawsuit against the artist, Andrew Ainsworth, in the United States in 2006.  Now, Lucasfilm is trying to have that decision enforced in Britain claiming that a large team of people developed the design for the Storm Trooper helmet and armor a year before Ainsworth was tapped to …read more