PHOENIX, AZ – JULY 18: Arizona Diamondbacks mascot, ‘D. Baxter the Bobcat’ has a light saber battle with in-game host Mike in honor of ‘Star Wars’ night before the MLB game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Francisco Giants at Chase Field on July 18, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Don’t mess with the force because if you do, you could find yourself in the middle of a lawsuit against Disney’s Lucasfilm.

Late last week, Lucasfilm and Disney filed a lawsuit against Michael Brown for classes he held to teach people how to fight with lightsabers. In short, Lucasfilm is suing Brown for trying to be a Jedi, so to speak.

The lawsuit states Brown’s classes are a violation of multiple ‘Star Wars’ trademarks. The classes were taught under the businesses New York Jedi, the Lightsaber Academy, and Thrills and Skills.

Brown’s classes could be found at LightsaberAcademy.com, where they were described as teaching students the “core principles” needed for different types of “Academic Form, Stage, and/or Dueling.”

While the classes were often taught in New York, Brown is being sued in a California federal court, as Lucasfilm is based in California.

“Defendants regularly use the Lucasfilm Trademarks without authorization in connection with their businesses,” states the Lucasfilm complaint. “Among other infringing activities, Defendants use a logo that is nearly identical, and confusingly similar, to Lucasfilm’s trademark Jedi Order logo… round in shape, with six wing-like shapes curving upward (three per side), and an eight-pointed star featuring elongated top and bottom points stretched into a vertical line.”

After Lucasfilm served Brown with cease and desist notices, Brown filed a trademark application for “Lightsaber Academy, Inc,” which could’ve been the tipping point for Lucasfilm.

In its lawsuit against Brown, Lucasfilm is demanding a permanent injunction, damages, and profits, or up to $2 million in damages for trademark infringement.

Here’s the complaint in its entirety.

Overall, there is a very odd disturbance in the force involving a multi-billion dollar movie franchise and a normal guy in NYC who likes playing with lightsabers.

[Hollywood Reporter]

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