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DeLorean Estate's Lawsuit over 'Back To the Future' Royalties
Two camps are battling in New Jersey federal court over royalties paid by Universal Pictures for use of the car that became a time machine in the Back to the Future movie trilogy. Sally DeLorean, the widow of auto executive John DeLorean, claims in a lawsuit filed the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey that DeLorean Motor Co. of Humble, TX, misrepresented itself to Universal as owner of the DeLorean name. The complaint alleges that DeLorean Motor, which has said it wants to make new replica versions of the car, collected a “substantial payment” of royalties from Universal that the plaintiff said properly belong to the late automaker's estate. DeLorean v. DeLorean Motor Co., 2:2018cv08212.
The estate of John DeLorean, who died in 2005, litigated once before with the Texas-based DeLorean company in New Jersey federal court, reaching a settlement in 2015. Under the settlement, the estate agreed not to oppose limited use of the DeLorean name and logos by DeLorean Motor. But that company subsequently used the settlement to convince Universal to hand over a “six-figure” payment of royalties related to the car's movie appearances, said R. Scott Thompson of Lowenstein Sandler in Roseland, NJ, who represents the DeLorean estate and Sally DeLorean.
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