A. Patentee not required to pay royalties beyond the end of patent term -
     Brulotte, p. 465

B. No licensee estoppel - Lear v. Adkins, p. 470

       D.  License Terms in case patent does not issue -  Aronson, p. 486
 

II.    Characters and personalities

      A.    Which characters deserve protection?

              1.    HYPO:

                    Paladin
 

                    CBS v. DeCosta, 377 F.2d 315 (1st Cir. 1967)

                 http://www.dynanet.com/hgwt/indexold.htm

             2.  Commercial exploitation

             3.  More delineated = more protection

                   a.    Cartoon characters

                    b.   Literary, television & movie characters

                    c.    Characters have become personalities

        B.   Cases

                1.    Walt Disney v. Air Pirates, cited p. 769
 

                2.    Pillsbury Co. v. Milky Way Productions, 215 U.S.P.Q. 124
                       (N.D. Ga. 1981)

                3.    The Lone Ranger

                            http://members.tripod.com/~ClaytonMoore/index.html

                4.    Warner Brothers v. American Broadcasting Company,
                        cited note 1, p. 633.
 

 A. History - see Pavesich v. New England Life Inc. Co., cited p. 503

1. Haelan Labs., Inc. v. Tops Chewing Gum, Inc., cited p. 503

2. Definition of right of publicity

3. Attributes that can be protected

B. State law issues

1. Descendability -- See Lugosi, cited p. 507

2. Restatement of Unfair Competition

3. Midler, note 4, p. 508
 

4. Waits, note 5, p. 508

5.  Hoffman, extra assigned case

6. Astaire v. Best Film and Video, 116 F.3d 1297 (9th Cir. 1997), amended by
      136 F.3d 1208 (9th Cir. 1998),

A. Celebrity images, style

1. Vanna White case,  p. 522

2. Wendt v. Host Int'l Inc., cited note 3, p. 533

3.    Church Lady

B. Imitation groups

1. Elvis - what is appropriated of value?

http://sunsite.unc.edu/elvis/honey.wav

http://sunsite.unc.edu/pjones/HoundDawg.au

http://www.mgm.com/elvis/ask/

2. Elvis websites

a. General

http://sunsite.unc.edu/elvis/elvishom.html

b. Church of Elvis

http://chelsea.ios.com/~hkarlin1/welcome.html

http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/41West/humour/Elvis_vs_Jesus.html

3. Elvis Impersonators

b. El Vez

El Vez official website            http://members.aol.com/elvezco/main.htm

c. Flying Elvi

http://www.flyingelvi.com/

4. Apple Corps Ltd. v. Leber, 229 U.S.P.Q. 1015 (Cal. Supr. 1986)

C. Right of publicity & the Internet

http://www.3-stooges.com