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Broad Injunction Issued in Toy Infringement Case

By Alison Frankel
December 22, 2008

Back in August, when Mattel Inc. won $100 million in damages from the federal jury that decided Mattel's highly publicized copyright infringement case against MGA Entertainment Inc., the verdict was widely regarded as a disappointment for Mattel, which had requested more than $1 billion in damages following the jury's finding that MGA's hugely successful Bratz dolls were based on designs by a Mattel employee.

At the time, Mattel lead counsel, John Quinn of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, said that the jury's most important finding was that MGA had infringed Mattel's copyright. Quinn promised to use the jury's infringement verdict to seek an injunction against MGA's Bratz dolls ' the toys that had sent sales of Mattel's Barbie into decline.

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