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Harvey Films
Extracted from the Wikipedia article The Harvey Entertainment Company.
Harvey Films v. Columbia Pictures
On October 28, 1986, Harvey Films filed a lawsuit against Columbia Pictures for infringement claiming that the ghost in the logo of the film Ghostbusters was similar to that of the Ghostly Trio from Casper, specifically Fatso. Columbia argued that Fatso was only a portion of Harvey's, at the time, renewed trademark, and there were three ghosts instead of just one. The court argued that the logos are largely dissimilar and that The Ghostly Trio had only the words of purposes of trademark and the three ghosts while the logo for Ghostbusters has a sign for prohibition with only the torso and head of only one ghost, making the logo seem more coincidental. The expressions are different, with their ghosts having either mischievous or evil facial expressions just to prank, criticize or antagonize Casper, while the other one has the look of bewilderment. The court said: