Intellectual Property Law

"MGA Loses Effort to Reduce Mattel's $100 Million Bratz Verdict"

By Marty Schwimmer

Bloomberg: "MGA Loses Effort to Reduce Mattel's $100 Million Bratz Verdict":

Larson on Dec. 3 ruled that MGA couldn?t make or sell the infringing dolls. He later modified the order, saying retailers would be allowed to buy the spring and fall lines from MGA through Dec. 31, or from either Mattel or a court-appointed receiver if he awards them the rights to the infringing Bratz products.

A federal jury in Riverside, California, found last year that some of the pouty and multiethnic Bratz dolls closely held MGA started selling in 2001 were substantially similar to the drawings of a former Barbie-doll designer for Mattel.

The jury also found that designer Carter Bryant made the sketches while he was at Mattel in 1999 and 2000.

Full post as published by Trademark Blog on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).