The Finnish firm said the companies had failed to pay a licence to use its intellectual properties.
If the court approves it, the 133-year-old firm aims to split its intellectual properties into two bundles.
"We have the technology to create all kinds of new intellectual properties, " says Mitch Slater, CLX's chief operating officer.
Many firms, she said, were registering trademarks to help them keep control of intellectual properties that were now out of copyright.
"Hire a good lawyer and make sure these people sign agreements about intellectual properties, " advises Olivier Toubia, assistant professor at Columbia University's business school.
Lucasfilm, and more specifically the Star Wars franchise, fits perfectly within the Disney portfolio of intellectual properties and the strategic and financial implications of this acquisition are compelling.
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The business model, intellectual properties, and the franchise potential of Angry Birds give Rovio the most exciting prospects I have seen in the entertainment business since Marvel in 2003.
The dispute coincides with Microsoft's efforts to force smartphone makers to pay it fees for the use of intellectual properties it claims ownership to, and which are used by Google's Android system.
In addition to the top-line benefits noted above, we can achieve bottom-line benefits by combining Take-Two's and EA's corporate and publishing infrastructures and by optimally supporting Take-Two's creative teams and intellectual properties in EA's decentralized label structure.
And modern technology, recently used to superimpose a crooning Elvis in a video duet with Celine Dion, could allow CKX to build a whole new war chest of intellectual properties that bring the old king into the modern world.
Just as music and movie companies cannot easily lock down the digital security of their intellectual properties in the great moving tide of bits, we as individuals have lost the lockdown control of our identities that people took for granted 20 years ago.
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