At this point, given they're arguing the Locust infringes on the Marauder, the Atlas on the Armored Veritech, and the Shadow Hawk on the Spartan/Gladiator Destroid, it is by no means a safe statement to make that none of this would have happened if they hadn't redone the Macross images for the Classics. After all, Project Phoenix didn't cause a new lawsuit, nor did the Primitive variants, including the Primitive Wasp.