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====== Plaintiffs Answer Counterclaim ====== | ====== Plaintiffs Answer Counterclaim ====== | ||
+ | //CBS, Paramount Say Their Lawsuit Isn't Over, Move on to Discovery// | ||
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- | CBS and Paramount Pictures | + | CBS and Paramount Pictures |
- | <WRAP right round alert 50%> | + | In their Answer, the plaintiffs' |
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- | ===== Motion | + | The answer was filed 21 days after the counterclaim was served on the plaintiffs by Axanar attorneys [[Winston & Strawn]], who have the opportunity |
- | The motion is a response to the [[answer|counterclaim]] Axanar' | + | === Counterclaim === |
- | The plaintiffs' | + | In their counterclaim, |
+ | * "A real and reasonable apprehension" | ||
+ | * Put //Axanar// on hold until the studios provide " | ||
+ | * Grounds for a declaratory judgment that //Prelude to Axanar//, the //Axanar// screenplays, | ||
- | Loeb asked Klausner for a hearing on the dismissal on XXXXXXXXX, 2016. | + | ==== Studios' |
- | ===== Answer ===== | + | <WRAP right box 50%> |
+ | //**__With regard to its ‘uncertainty as to how Axanar may proceed with its film,’ the plaintiffs stated ‘their [legal] action remains pending. ’__**// — // | ||
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- | In their Answer, the plaintiffs' | + | In their eight-page response, CBS and Paramount generally denied Axanar's claims, especially challenging Axanar' |
- | The answer was filed 21 days after the counterclaim was filed by Axanar, which will have had an additional 21 days to respond before | + | > [Plaintiffs] admit that they have not sued with respect to all uses of the Star Trek Copyrighted Works, but deny that they have not previously sued to enforce their intellectual property rights in the Star Trek Copyrighted Works.((Paramount Pictures Corp. and CBS Studios Inc.'s Answer |
- | ==== Counterclaim ==== | + | === Tolerated Use === |
- | In their counterclaim, the defendants alleged they have: | + | The plaintiffs disputed Peters' |
- | * "A real and reasonable apprehension" they face additional litigation if they proceed | + | |
- | * Put //Axanar// on hold until the studios | + | > [The plaintiffs] deny that Defendant Alec Peters “reached out to CBS” on multiple occasions, admit that Defendant Alec Peters spoke to [[[CBS officials]]] Bill Burke and to John Van Citters, but state that Mr. Peters was never given permission to use Star Trek Copyrighted Works, nor was he provided |
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+ | The studios | ||
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+ | Instead, the plaintiffs denied that they did not " | ||
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+ | == Overstatement == | ||
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+ | In the counterclaim, Peters described his previous association with CBS as his "expertise" | ||
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+ | Instead, the plaintiffs minimized their experience with Peters: "[We] admit that CBS Consumer Products Inc. worked in the past in a limited capacity with a company with which Alec Peters was involved," | ||
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+ | === Abrams-Lin Intercession === | ||
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+ | On May 20, 2016, Star Trek producer Abrams claimed the case was "going away … within the next few weeks," by which Axanar claimed Abrams and Lin had " | ||
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+ | Instead, the plaintiffs stated that while Abrams' | ||
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+ | With regard to its " | ||
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+ | ==== Relief ===== | ||
Axanar also sought the following as relief from the court: | Axanar also sought the following as relief from the court: | ||
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* Defendants' | * Defendants' | ||
* Additional relief the court finds “just, proper, and equitable.”((Answer of Defendants … to Plaintiffs' | * Additional relief the court finds “just, proper, and equitable.”((Answer of Defendants … to Plaintiffs' | ||
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+ | In reply, the plaintiffs generally denied Axanar' | ||
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+ | ===== Next Steps ===== | ||
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+ | Axanar' | ||
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+ | In the meantime, settlement talks are said to be continuing between the parties. If successfully concluded, the two sides could each drop their complaint and counterclaim. Otherwise, the case continues [[anatomy_of_the_case|on its schedule]] toward trial in January 2017. {{: | ||
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