FROSS, ZELNICK, LEHRMAN & ZISSU, P.C. v. GEER

13061, 106044/11

120 A.D.3d 1157 (2014)

993 N.Y.S.2d 300

2014 NY Slip Op 06547

FROSS, ZELNICK, LEHRMAN & ZISSU, P.C., Appellant, v. LOUISE GEER, as Trustee of the DILLE FAMILY TRUST, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided September 30, 2014.


The Dille Family Trust (the Trust), of which defendant is trustee, owned trademarks and copyrights for "Buck Rogers." Two of the Dille family members are beneficiaries of the Trust; their grandfather's syndicate had obtained the Buck Rogers trademark and copyrights. The syndicate had hired Philip Nowlan to create comic strips based on the character, and his heirs started cancellation proceedings to terminate the syndicate's trademark rights and obtain the rights for themselves...

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