Image by JimmyMac210 via Flickr I had been following this trademark case, between Barbie and Bratz , because I was fairly sure that litigation was the wrong move for these parties. Mattel was incensed that its designer moved on and took his drawings of Bratz dolls with him; the designer Carter Bryant was incensed that his great ideas of Bratz dolls fell on deaf ears at Mattel, until MGA took his idea, ran with it, and improved it. Here is the Jury award, with thanks to Gillian Flaccus
"A federal jury awarded Mattel Inc. $100 million in damages Tuesday after a serious girl fight between the house of Barbie and the maker of her chief rival, the pouty-lipped Bratz dolls.
MGA Entertainment Inc. and its chief executive officer, Isaac Larian, were told to pay a total of $90 million in three causes of action related to Mattel’s employment contract with designer Carter Bryant, who developed the Bratz concept.
The jury also ordered MGA, Larian and subsidiary...
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NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 07: People shop for Barbie products at F.A.O. Schwarz on November 7, 2008 in New York City. Mattel Inc, the maker of Barbie and the nations' largest toy maker, said it would eliminate about 1,000 jobs, around 3% of its world-wide employment. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ... more
Thank you, PixWit, for contributing the first artistic interpretation of the legendary Pigasys, the airborne pig, the obscure and slightly retarded half-cousin of the famed and beautiful Pegasus.
What an honor and how apropos to have our first view of Pigasys created by an artist who has been heralded as “…Just Gross,” “Irreverent,” “Hateful,” “Yuck,” and even an “…ugly mutha.”
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Contributors From: pigasys.com Post Date: 2007-03-15 10:55:27
Because “creatives” so rarely get the chance to work for free, we’ve invited a number of talented artists the incedible opportunity to showcase their talents through a unique depiction of our hero, PIGASYS.
If you admire our header designs and PIGASYS illustrations, hire these artists and pay them the rates they deserve. If you don’t think the header designs are so great, hire them anyway. Their paying work, as the pages below indicate, are much better than the fr... more
We’re in the midst of a communication revolution, and all the rules are changing.
The upshot: It’s a great time to be David. For Goliath… not so good.
I am a marketing guy, not a technical guy. I’m not a computer programmer or a gadget geek. I don’t know PHP from PCP. My VCR is flashing 12:00 just like yours.
HOWEVER… I have spent the better part of the past year trying to sort out what all of this means, and how small business owners, franchiso... more
( FranchisePick.Com ) Paris Hilton… Jerry Seinfeld… Reese Witherspoon… Salma Hayek… Linsdsay Lohan… Leonardo Di Caprio… Even Andy Dick .
They’re all fans of the trendy, often controversial, and always newsworthy frozen no-gurt sensation called Pinkberry.
Pinkberry addicts call it “Crackberry.” The L.A. Times called it “The taste that launched 1,000 parking tickets.” FORTUNE magazine declares Pinkberry “could become the next hot franchise.... more
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