Skateboarding Ollie Creator Suing For $20 Million
the pleasures of going mainstream…
The creator of an aerial skateboarding move known as ollie is suing several companies, including Disney and Sega, over the use of the word.
Alan “Ollie” Gelfand, 42, says the companies infringed on trademarking rights. He is seeking more than $20 million in damages.”I’m just a skateboarder,” Gelfand said. “I’m not a huge, mega corporation . . . yet.”
Gelfand’s lawsuit was sent back to Broward Circuit Court from federal court last month. Sega Corp. sells a skateboarding arcade game called Ollie King for $9,779.99. Then there’s Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure video game.
December 21st, 2005 at 1:37 pm
my heart bleeds
December 21st, 2005 at 1:37 pm
what a fucking clown.
December 21st, 2005 at 1:41 pm
What about Tom Fry with Fishbrain =)
December 21st, 2005 at 1:43 pm
funniest thing I ever heard.
December 21st, 2005 at 1:55 pm
what the f%$? Is he stupid?? Suing big companies that put new people in thier scene cant be a good move.
December 21st, 2005 at 2:49 pm
lol, those big companies will hire amazing lawyers and just rape him
December 21st, 2005 at 5:06 pm
I hope people dont start suing because of tricknames in rolling. That would suck if I had to pay a guy a nickle for every royale I did.
December 21st, 2005 at 5:15 pm
what a nob rot
December 21st, 2005 at 5:39 pm
i hope he gets butt raped and doesn’t get a cent, what a greedy bastard!
December 21st, 2005 at 6:15 pm
This guy is awsome. I wish him luck. Finally someone is giving big business a taste of their own medicine. How could you not take advantage of an oppurtunity like that? However, I doubt he copyrighted the term “Ollie”.
December 21st, 2005 at 6:32 pm
“I hope people dont start suing because of tricknames in rolling. That would suck if I had to pay a guy a nickle for every royale I did.” posted on 12/21/05 by 10(oneone1_onezero0)
it would suck even more having to pay like 10 dollars every time you did a pornstar.
December 21st, 2005 at 9:47 pm
bobybgud is completly right! if you kids don’T understand that how dumb would he be not trying to sue those companies idf there is really a chance in winning (and he will know that for sure!)…
i would do that aswell i guess, as if disney would give a fuck about 10 or 20 millions…
December 21st, 2005 at 10:06 pm
contagion your a fucking retard.. Dont you think that if you were disney that you would care about 10 or 20 millions.. omfg your stoopid!
December 21st, 2005 at 10:09 pm
LOL! I’d sue disney too, just for the hell of it
December 21st, 2005 at 10:24 pm
what an asshole! i could understand if that putting his name would do something bad to him… but that`s just ridicilous!!!
December 21st, 2005 at 10:59 pm
I really hope he wins, i don’t like corporations.
December 21st, 2005 at 11:26 pm
Now if i due a pornstar, will i get sued a thousand for beign underage?
December 25th, 2005 at 4:47 am
Now what the hell are they gonna call an ollie in video games? A kick-up?