Video-Game Suit Explores Use of Wrestling Indicia

Still, there are heavyweight intellectual-property matters and then there are battles against real heavyweights. In one of Marenberg's current videogame trademark cases, the slim fivefoot-eight-inch Irell & Manella partner Steven Marenberg's client list includes a long list of Hollywood heavyweights. Pop songster Stevie Wonder, 'The Lord of the Rings' film director Peter Jackson, The Walt Disney Company, the wizards at Pixar Animation Studios ' the 52-year-old Marenberg has represented them all. Marenberg is up against a six-foot-three-inch, 300-pound former professional wrestling bruiser known as the Warrior. Until three years ago, Marenberg had never heard of the Warrior and knew nothing of his exploits during the 1990s as one of World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) premier stars.

12 minute read December 21, 2007 at 11:21 AM

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Susan Hansen