Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/2007/08/22/mattel_lawsuit/
Mattel gets litigious on chinabarbie.com
Trademark lawsuit seeks unspecified damages
Posted in Legal, 22nd August 2007 09:26 GMT
Mattel yesterday filed suit in Manhattan federal court against www.chinabarbie.com for "using the toymaker's famed 'Barbie' trademark as part of the name for a pornographic website", Reuters reports.
The suit, which is seeking unspecified damages, says the site is operated by Florida-based Global China Networks using a New York postal address and had "sold memberships to the site to customers around the world".
The suit also helpfully adds that "American girls aged between 3 and 11 own an average of eight Barbie dolls each". ®