Week 8 Eoc : Bratz Vs Mattel

After a long 7 year legal battle between MGA entertainment and Mattel, the courts finally ruled in MGA's favor. According to California Employment Lawyers Published by Howard Law, "MGA subsequently claimed that Mattel gained wrongful access to toy fairs with fake passes in order to steal trade secrets about the Bratz dolls, and then concealed the evidence of such actions." A Federal Jury found that Mattel did not have the rights to Bratz doll design and was ordered to pay up 89 million in damages to the small MGA company. It a more recent report on Reuters.com, "Mattel defeats Bratz doll maker antitrust lawsuit",
" Mattel Inc has won the dismissal of an antitrust lawsuit brought by bitter rival MGA Entertainment Inc that accused the toy giant of trying to monopolize the U.S. market for fashion dolls." My thoughts on this issue are that it seems that the designer wanted to be in more control and probably wanted a better apy desinging his own toy line. I dont think its right that Bratz making a name for themselves give Mattel the right to start a legal battle. If the designer was still working for Mattel, maybe there would be a case, but since he left Mattel, its not like he was selling Barbie like products.

Week 8 Boc : Progress on Final Project

Final project is not to far off into the future at this point, and I have to start writing my questions for the lawyer of our choosing. Last week I asked my mom if she has a record of the name of the lawyer that I worked with before, but she didn't remember which was fine. We established on finding a better lawyer for this project. Since my mom works for the New York City Transit Authority, she has a office in her building full of different lawyers and she said, if you want, I will help you pick a lawyer there to help with these questions. Basically at this point now I just have to write the questions, then put it all together. Hopefully today I will have enough time to work on the questions. 

As for the progress of class assignments, I am pretty much caught up. During this quarter I only missed one Eoc, and I'm catching up on my tweets other then that everything seems to be okay.

EOS week 7: Lawyers

1. My lawyer I had in the past, have to head home for his info...

2. F. Christopher Austin | Las Vegas Intellectual Property Lawyer, 400 South Rampart
Ste. 400 Las Vegas, NV 89145 702-889-7734
 http://www.lawyer.com/f-christopher-austin.html

3. Michael J. McCue 3993 Howard Hughes Pkwy, Suite 600
Las Vegas, NV 89169 

4. Craig Friedberg 4760 S. Pecos Rd.Suite 103
Las Vegas, NV 89121 702-435-7968

5. Corey Beck 425 south 6th street 89101 702 678 1999

6. Borghese Legal, Ltd.

Intellectual property, internet and business law firm

10161 Park Run Drive Suite 150 - Las Vegas, NV 89145
(702) 382-0200

7. * The Law Firm of Andrea Hence Evans, LLC

1425 K Street NW SUITE 350 - Washington, DC 20005
202-461-3254

8.  Beller Neil J Ltd 7408 W Sahara Ave

Las Vegas, NV (702) 625-6768

9.  Harper, James E. Attorney Help Us Out801 S Rancho Dr

Las Vegas (702) 384-7111

10.  Barry Levinson & Associate
5440 W Sahara Ave, Fl3
Las Vegas, NV (702) 836-9696

Week 5 EOC: Patent Trolls

These days, it’s very hard to take a side on the matter of patent trolls. Some feel they have a right to do it. "Every plaintiff who brings one of these cases is a private attorney general who is doing a service to the United States, and I'm doing the same," says Mr. Stauffer, a lawyer in Roseland, N.J. Now that they feel they have the right to challenge these patent numbers, companies are using now have to prepare. "These cases have forced companies to spend time, money and resources investigating claims where there really isn't any injury to anybody," says Chicago lawyer Jason C. White. We all know these days that China is distributing a lot of merchandise to American stores but we also know how sneaky the Chinese can be. "You're paying the hostage fee," says Mark Willard who basically found a old patent number on a remolded rake. Many companies are being affected by their intellectual property. An Intellectual property lawyer  named Robert Koch, is advising most of his clients to refrain from marking patent numbers visibly on the product itself. This alone should help control the amount of cases being submitted.