Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: IronKros

While I disagree COMPLETELY with a judge ordering a private company to stop making a product (Barbie doesn’t own the fashion doll. Bratz looks nothing like Barbie) I am glad I don’t have to call them the “Slutz” dolls anymore.


10 posted on 12/04/2008 5:59:10 AM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: autumnraine

You completely disagree that a court should be able order a company from violating the copyrights and patents of another company?

The dolls were created by a Mattel employee while he worked at Mattel. Therefore it was a work product that belonged to Mattel and MGA had no right to produce them.


27 posted on 12/04/2008 6:19:28 AM PST by Comstock1 (If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry .45 caliber miracle.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies ]

To: autumnraine

The judge made the ruling after a jury found that the creator of Bratz had developed them while working for Mattel and then took the idea to MGA, which marketed the dolls.


36 posted on 12/04/2008 6:48:20 AM PST by Above My Pay Grade
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson