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Litigation

May 29, 2008

In Trial's Opening, Lawyers Quibble Over Doll's Origins

Kicking off a fiercely litigated trial over a popular children's doll, a lawyer for Mattel told a federal court jury Tuesday that the toy maker's rival went to great lengths to conceal the fact that Mattel owned the rights to the lucrative Bratz doll.

By Jason W. Armstrong
Daily Journal Staff Writer
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      RIVERSIDE - Kicking off a fiercely litigated trial over a popular children's doll, a lawyer for Mattel told a federal court jury Tuesday that the toy maker's rival went to great lengths to conceal the fact that Mattel owned the rights to the lucrative Bratz doll.
      Mattel attorney John Quinn told...

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