George Lucas Continues Fight Over Stormtrooper Helmet Design, Takes Case to UK's Supreme Court

This post goes to show you that even when you consider a story to be over and done with, it turns out to still have some life left in it. Also goes to show that, when George Lucas files a lawsuit, he doesn’t quit very easily. We last talked about the issue back in 2009, at which time we assumed would be the director’s final, failed attempt to stop British designer Andrew Ainsworth from selling replicas of Star Wars Stormtrooper helmets (Ainsworth himself had designed the original in the 1970s for the first Star Wars film).

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