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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

As soon as Ramar Larkin Jones he got wind that lawyers from The Pokémon Company objected to the Pokemon-themed party he had planned in August, he shut it down.

But that's far from the end of it. Pokémon's lawyers aren't letting go [arstechnica.com]—they refused to dismiss the case against Jones unless he coughs up $4,000 by mid-November. Jones, who described his plight to Geekwire, says he just hasn't got the money.

"I work in a cafe and I literally don’t have $4000," Jones wrote on a fundraising page he set up to try to satisfy Pokémon's demands for cash. "I wish they would have just sent a cease and desist because I had no problem dropping the party but I just don’t have $4000 to pay in the next 45 days."

Jones even offered to pay the full $4,000 over the course of a year, but Pokémon's lawyers from the firm of Davis Wright Tremaine wouldn't budge on the deadline.

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