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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
Right, but the bigger issue here is the use of the characters, which is what they were claiming - that the characters and earlier works should be off limits because some of the stories which present them as "round characters" were still under copyright protection.
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Yes, indeed.
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They've apparently applied for trademark protection for the characters in the UK, though it remains to be seen how that will go.
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I can't see that succeeding. Conan Doyle died in 1930, so his work has been in the public domain in the UK for many years.