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 awarded Mattel Inc. $100 million in damages on Tuesday in a federal copyright lawsuit that pitted the house of Barbie against MGA Entertainment Inc., the maker of the saucy Bratz dolls.

Mattel Inc., the world’s biggest toymaker, may add as much as $500 million a year to its revenue by winning a copyright suit against MGA Entertainment Inc. over the Barbie doll’s hip urban rival, ...

Toy company Mattel was dealt a setback today in the battle for control of the Bratz doll franchise, which began with a legal contest decided by a Riverside jury and judge more than two years ago. A ...

Heading into the Barbie vs. Bratz copyright trial, it had been assumed that the legal battleground would be a timeline of events: Was Carter Bryant, the designer of the pouty-lipped Bratz doll, still ...

A federal jury Thursday found that Bratz dolls were in fact conceived by a designer who was on Mattel's payroll. Mattel, Barbie's corporate parent, had accused Bratz maker MGA of stealing the idea.

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 ...