Considering Mattel's financial resources, I'd be surprised it the El Segundo-based toymaker would drop the case. Mattel wants to punish anyone and everyone who steals or may have stolen its ideas.
(Bloomberg) Mattel Inc., the Barbie-doll maker whose $100 million verdict against MGA Entertainment Inc. was thrown out on appeal last year, is taking its fight over the origins of its rival's Bratz dolls back before a jury.Jury selection is set to start today in Santa Ana, California, for a trial that U.S. District Judge David Carter has said may take as long as four months. Mattel claims Carter Bryant, the designer who created Bratz, was a Mattel employee when he came up with the idea and made the first sketches and that he secretly took the doll design to MGA.
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