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Defendant Proclaims Victory Over Bratz Damages of $100M

Posted Aug 26, 2008, 05:46 pm CDT
By Martha Neil

Mattel Inc. had sought more than $2 billion, including punitives, in the damages phase of a copyright infringement and contractual rights suit against the manufacturer of the saucy Bratz dolls.

So when a federal jury in California awarded $100 million today, it was the defendant, MGA Entertainment Inc., that proclaimed victory, reports the Associated Press. (An earlier version of the AP article incorrectly said the award was only $40 million.)

''This jury found there was no guilt,'' Isaac Larian, MGA's chief executive officer, was quoted as saying in the earlier AP article.

The jury was the same one that last month found that Carter Bryant, the designer of the Bratz dolls, thought of the… Continue reading...

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