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Published on Thursday, August 28, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
The $100 million jury award in the three-month legal battle between Mattel Inc. and Bratz-maker MGA Entertainment Inc. left one key issue unresolved.
A judge must now decide whether MGA can continue to market the popular Bratz doll line and if it can, whether it will have to pay Mattel royalties for some of those dolls.
Mattel attorneys said after Tuesday's verdict that they intend to file an injunction to stop MGA from making more Bratz dolls.
"The jury found that at some point the dolls infringed, but the question is, was it the earlier dolls or the later dolls or all of them?" said Oren Warshavsky, an intellectual-property attorney who has followed the case.
The federal panel found Van Nuys-based MGA, Chief Executive Isaac Larian and subsidiary MGA Hong Kong liable for copyright infringement and awarded a total of $10 million in damages in that category. It also awarded about $90 million for three causes of action related to breach of contract
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