When Disney loses rights to Scrat, it doesn't own him from the Ice Age franchise anymore following trademark dispute! But it's not fair! We want him to return in the seventh Ice Age film 20th Century Studios and the Walt Disney Company are both working on to Disney Plus! Hence, I've made this petition to bring back Scrat, our favorite saber-toothed squirrel to the Ice Age franchise!

Sure he and his acorn unintentionally created several disastrous events in the previous Ice Age films. But Scrat didn't create a disastrous event with his acorn in the third Ice Age movie! He actually met a beautiful, female saber-toothed squirrel named Scratte, who also had acorn obsessions like Scrat. She was the one who created a disastrous event in Dinosaur World at the end of the third film.

So now, I'm really gonna need your help bringing back Scrat, our favorite saber-toothed squirrel to the Ice Age franchise, so that he can return in the seventh film of the Ice Age franchise to Disney Plus.

Scrat wasn't actually trying to kill the Ice Age herd, he was actually trying to retrieve his acorn that he's obsessed with.

And also, Disney has to rehire Chris Wedge so he can reprise his role as the voice of Scrat when he returns!

Believe me, I'm sure he won't create another disastrous event in the seventh film of the Ice Age franchise.

#WeLoveScratTheSquirrel

This petition is mostly for Scrat the squirrel fans to sign in. What about you, are you a big fan of Scrat the squirrel?

#PleaseBringBackScrat

See? Look, he's really sad and crying when he was removed from the Ice Age franchise. Especially when Disney doesn't own him or have rights to him anymore. So please cheer him up by signing this petition. Thank you.

And believe me, Scrat deserves another chance.

A trademark dispute is the unauthorized use of a trademark or service mark on or in connection with goods and/or services in a manner that is likely to cause confusion, deception, or mistake about the source of the goods and/or services, which means 20th Century Fox had stolen Ivy Silberstein's idea for the character Scrat from the Ice Age-movies after she pitched her character Sqrat to 20th Century Fox-movie-executives back in 2000. On July 7, 2020, Ivy would win a 20 year trademark dispute over the character Scrat, which caused Disney to lose the rights to the character. That's why Scrat didn't appear in The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild.

Wikipedia states that Scrat's origin is disputed.

Cartoon designer Ivy Silberstein claims she created the character in 1999, after seeing a squirrel-rat hybrid in Skidmore College's Case Green. She called her character "Sqrat" and says she presented the idea to 20th Century Fox movie executives. A CNN report by Jeanne Moos of Ivy's discovery was aired in 2000, two years before Ice Age went into development. Ivy Silberstein claims the studio's own documents actually identified the character in Ice Age as "Sqrat", though her creation was not saber-toothed. Her creation was actually a combination of squirrel and rat.

Ivy Silberstein was offered a $300,000 settlement by Fox Studios. She turned it down and subsequently lost in court. The case is currently in appeal (Case # 04401 Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, NYC). She still has hopes of receiving damages for her claimed infringement. Ivy Silberstein did win a partial summary judgment from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in a reverse suit, Fox Film Corporation v. Ivy Silberstein, in which Fox had tried to prevent her from registering the trademark "SQRAT".

According to Chris Wedge, artist Peter de Seve came up with the design for Scrat after a visit to the Museum of Natural History. Chris Wedge called it "sort of a squirrel based on some lemur".

Ivy Silberstein has now settled a trademark lawsuit with Disney resulting in the removal of the "Scrat" character from the Ice Age franchise and he did not make an appearance for The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild in 2022 as a result. Ivy claims her character was stolen and repurposed by Blue Sky Studios back in 2002. Ivy was awarded a trademark for her "Sqrat" character designed on May 19, 1999. But we don't like Scrat being removed from the Ice Age franchise and Disney losing rights to him, neither does he. The Ice Age franchise isn't the Ice Age franchise without Scrat, our favorite saber-toothed squirrel. Without Scrat, the Ice Age franchise will be nothing, which will totally sadden us! We really miss Scrat the saber toothed squirrel from the Ice Age franchise! When Ivy Silberstein won the legal battle, it means we won't see Scrat the squirrel again in future releases of the Ice Age franchise! We especially don't like her 2 Sqrat trademarks and the character of Sqrat created in May 19, 1999, because she's a terrible character designer and she make the animation totally off! We can't do more Ice Age without Scrat, everyone knows that very well! And we're furious when Ivy Silberstein's now been recognized as the author of Scrat, the character from the Ice Age franchise!

20th Century Fox didn't ask Ivy Silberstein for permission to use her idea for the character Scrat the saber-toothed squirrel for the Ice Age film series, license her IP rights, credit her as "Scrat Originally Created By: Ivy Silberstein" in movies, TV specials, and Scrat shorts, and add the text "SQRAT is the trademark of Ivy "Supersonic" Silberstein" in every end credits, just because she first created Scrat the squirrel before Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox and Disney. They didn't even pay her, either. They especially didn't ask her if Blue Sky Studios could have permission to repurpose and redesign her character Scrat for the Ice Age movie that was in development.

Ivy Silberstein, the creator of "Scrat" sued 20th Century Fox in early 2000 after using the character without her authorization. However, the judge did not appeal in favor of the designer and in 2003 determined that both would share the Scrat rights.

See? I told you Fox didn't license Ivy Silberstein's IP rights. So it's really Fox's fault for using Ivy's character without her authorization.

And as expected, Ivy Silberstein disagreed with the judge's decision and stood firm with her request for more than 20 years, until finally on January 28, 2022, the day when The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild was released on Disney Plus, the rights of her creation returned to her hands. 

Also, Fox and Disney didn't even ask Ivy for permission if they could use her character with her authorization, either!

Ivy Silberstein couldn't have disagreed with the judge's decision back in 2003, that just makes us very disappointed in her.

Scrat is unable to stop crying since Disney said goodbye to him and respected Ivy Silberstein's 2 Sqrat trademarks and the character of Sqrat created in May 19, 1999! Scrat doesn't actually want Ivy Silberstein to be the author of him, he really wants to return to the Ice Age franchise now, because he knows that the Herd is missing him right now and they're out looking around everywhere for him.

Ivy "Supersonic" Silberstein wasn't even thinking about other people who enjoy Scrat the squirrel in Ice Age movies, she was only thinking about herself! She wasn't even thinking about her fans either!

Even so, she had to fight Rupert Murdoch, 20th Century Fox, Blue Sky Studios and Disney for rights to her own Cartoon Sqrat, they made her fight them for 20 years.

Disney has reportedly agreed to discontinue use of Scrat, the popular saber-toothed squirrel who served as the de facto mascot of the Ice Age franchise, following a 20-year dispute between Blue Sky Studios, who produced the films, and a cartoonist who claimed ownership of the character. Ivy Silberstein, who goes professionally by Ivy Supersonic, says that in 1999, she created Sqrat, a character who was half-squirrel and half-rat, after seeing a similar animal in the park (bonus features on the Ice Age 2 DVD also make the "squirrel-rat" connection, saying that Scrat is an ancestor of both). Silberstein apparently tried to pitch the critter to Blue Sky or Fox (who owned Blue Sky at the time) at one point, and later filed a lawsuit alleging that her copyright had been violated when Scrat appeared in Ice Age without compensation to her.

I told you her character was part squirrel and part rat.

Several people have claimed ownership of Scrat over the years, making the character a nice diversion onscreen, but a bit of a headache for the studio in the real world. Silberstein's claims held the most weight, but in 2003, a judge found that she and Blue Sky had equal claim to the character. This allowed her to create a world around her version of Sqrat, which she did in a comic strip, but did not compel Fox to discontinue their use of Scrat, or to pay Silberstein. Unsatisfied and undeterred, she continued making her case to Fox for years.

Scrat was the mascot of Blue Sky for years, but following Disney's 2019 acquisition of Fox, Blue Sky was shuttered. While the Ice Age IP will live on at Disney, various news reports suggest that the studio met with Silberstein after the Fox acquisition to try to come to an acceptable resolution of her case. Most of those news stories are from outside of the English-speaking media, but Looper has a breakdown of the highlights.

Assuming these reports are accurate, it seems Scrat's absence from future Ice Age projects is the result of Disney acquiescing to Silberstein's demands, but the verbage in the articles does not suggest this was the result of a court ruling against Disney. Instead, it seems they either saw credibility in her argument or simply did not want to deal with more litigation.

So I think I know what they should do next time, if Bardel Entertainment, 20th Century Studios and Disney decide to include him in the seventh movie of the Ice Age franchise that they're working on, they need to ask Ivy Silberstein for permission if they could use her character Scrat for the seventh Ice Age film, license her IP rights and credit her as "Scrat Originally Created By: Ivy Silberstein" in the seventh movie of the Ice Age franchise. And they need to also add the text "SQRAT is the trademark of Ivy "Supersonic" Silberstein" in the end credits of the seventh Ice Age movie, especially to pay her as well. They especially need to ask Ivy for permission if they could use her character with her authorization and have Bardel Entertainment repurpose and redesign her character Scrat for the seventh Ice Age movie.

#PleaseGiveScratAnotherChance

Why can't Disney and Ivy Silberstein use Scrat for both of their projects in the future?

Starting someday, they need to share the Scrat rights together.

We suggest that Disney can use Scrat for more Ice Age movies, and Ivy Silberstein can write stories about Scrat based on the Ice Age shorts.

Actually, this was a big misunderstanding. Ivy did not win her SQRAT character back from Disney just because they decided not to remodel him in his Bardel Entertainment form for the latest Ice Age movie about Buck Wild.

She keeps on bragging, spamming and lying about her SQRAT character on her Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts and she needs to stop this big time.

So this petition is to also stop Ivy Silberstein from bragging about her SQRAT character that she did not win back from Disney.