Playing with dolls might be for children, but Barbie’s attorneys are dragging Bratz to the not-so-friendly playhouse of federal court. In a four-year legal battle with billions of dollars at stake, ...

A federal jury in Riverside ruled Thursday in favor of Mattel Inc. on several counts in a copyright infringement case that has pitted the El-Segundo based company against rival MGA Entertainment Inc.

The tiny, fake fur was flying as the Barbie-Bratz court battle wrapped up Thursday, with toy industry giant Mattel Inc. and upstart MGA Entertainment Inc. both claiming ownership of the hugely ...

The rights to the popular Bratz doll franchise belong to Mattel Inc., not a rival toymaker that stole the concept that became a global darling among consumers, a lawyer for Mattel said Tuesday.

April 21, 2011 – SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - A jury found Mattel Inc <MAT.O> had not proven ownership of Bratz drawings and sculpts after a long trial against MGA Entertainment. The legal battle ...

After nearly three months of courtroom testimony, the bitter dispute between toy giant Mattel Inc. and rival MGA Entertainment Inc. over ownership of the sassy Bratz doll line was sent to a jury for ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered MGA Entertainment Inc to stop selling its popular Bratz dolls and banned it from using the Bratz name, finding that "hundreds ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif., May 27 -- It was tastefully attired Barbie vs. streetwise Bratz in federal court on Tuesday as the trial began in a Mattel lawsuit against a rival dollmaker. The big questions in ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif., June 13 (Reuters) - Lawyers for Mattel Inc challenged the creator of Bratz dolls on Friday on his claims about how and when he thought up the idea for Barbie's rival in a federal ...

Barbie may have taken some of the sass out of her pouty-lipped rivals Yasmin, Jade, Cloe and Sasha with a $100 million verdict against Bratz-maker MGA Entertainment Inc., but no one’s left the ...