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Fox News anchor who shares same name as hamster toy sues Hasbro for $5M
New York Daily News ^
| September 1, 2015
| Dareh Gregorian
Posted on 09/02/2015 7:42:43 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
A Fox News anchor says she’s no hamster—or choking hazard.
In papers filed in New Jersey Federal Court, Harris Faulkner says she’s suffered “substantial commercial and emotional damage” from a plastic hamster doll that shares her name.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: faulkner; hamster; harrisfaulkner; hasbro; lawsuit; toy
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To: ConservativeStatement
Damages would seem to me to be worth about $12.84.
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posted on
09/02/2015 7:45:20 AM PDT
by
PATRIOT1876
(The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
To: ConservativeStatement
Oh, come on. This is ridiculous, unless the toy is somehow linked to her by a picture or some other likeness making it an identifiable caricature of her. And even then, she’s a public personality who should be able to take it.
To: ConservativeStatement
Dont see the resemblance but the name is a WTF.
To: ConservativeStatement
What’s next, a plastic Megyn Kelly doll that gets her period?
To: ConservativeStatement
I've admired Harris over the years, a real professional.
But this seems nothing more than something that hurt her ego.
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posted on
09/02/2015 7:48:42 AM PDT
by
PROCON
To: Wilderness Conservative
What the hell is a “Deco-bit”???
To: ConservativeStatement
I remember her from Kansas City.
The toy has her eyes.
To: ObozoMustGo2012
“What the hell is a “Deco-bit”???”
Wherever.
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posted on
09/02/2015 7:49:48 AM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: ConservativeStatement
At least it wasn’t a gerbil.
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posted on
09/02/2015 7:51:03 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: ConservativeStatement
To: PATRIOT1876
I’m probably the odd FReeper out on this one, but I think she has a case. Her name is her “brand”. Seems to me if the company wants to market a toy with her brand, she should have been consulted and a contract signed for royalties.
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posted on
09/02/2015 7:51:45 AM PDT
by
knittnmom
(Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
To: PROCON
Protecting her brand. Some lawyer may have talked her into it.
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posted on
09/02/2015 7:52:07 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Wilderness Conservative
WTF? This had to be intentional.
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posted on
09/02/2015 7:53:00 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Cecil the Lion says, Stop the Slaughter of the Baby Humans!!!)
To: ConservativeStatement
Seriously? What kind of damage could be done by having a cute little toy with the same name. Disappointing. I thought she was more sensible than this.
I’m willing to bet nobody even was aware of this until now.
To: FlingWingFlyer
To: Wilderness Conservative
Hasbro has Trade Marked the Harris Faulkner toy name? OH BOUY!
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posted on
09/02/2015 7:55:36 AM PDT
by
SIRTRIS
To: Romans Nine
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posted on
09/02/2015 7:55:44 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: JudyinCanada
They had to be. I’ve been involved in product naming. It’s insane some of the gyrations that need to be checked. As a public personality, the first google search would have taken care of it.
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posted on
09/02/2015 7:55:55 AM PDT
by
cyclotic
To: ConservativeStatement
This is what Fox has become.
From the presumptive challenger in the news realm, touting a conservative voice, to just another leftist network who's anchors sue for absolutely no reason.
This lawsuit should be countersued by Hasbro for causing THEM duress. She should lose that countersuit, and badly.
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posted on
09/02/2015 7:56:21 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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