With his usual aplomb, Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit casually eviscerated the trial court’s decision in last year’s Barbie vs. Bratz battle, opining that Carter Bryant’s contract with Mattel did not cover “ideas” (only “inventions”) and that it simply wouldn’t be fair to hand Barbie the keys to her her little sister’s billion [...]
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Everybody Loves Barbie
April 16th, 2010 · Comments Off · Copyright, Trademark
Barbie is, of course, an American icon known to virtually every man, woman and child in the United States. Even if you are a man (and played with G.I. Joe as a boy), your sisters played with Barbies, or your cousins did, or the girls down the street had tea parties with Barbie in the [...]
I am a commercial litigator and intellectual property lawyer in San Francisco. Although my practice encompasses a wide variety of business disputes, I have a particular fondness for, and am prone to wax philosophical on, the subjects of copyright and trademark infringement in music, literature, art, and film.
