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Mattel Sues ChinaBarbie.com for Trademark Violation

08-23-2007, 04:09 AM

Mattel Sues ChinaBarbie.com for Trademark Violation

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NEW YORK ? Barbie doll manufacturer Mattel Inc. has sued adult performer China Barbie of ChinaBarbie.com for using its famous product's name on her website.
Mattel filed suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, alleging China Barbie violated Barbie's registered trademark by including it in her domain name in a "bad faith attempt to profit from Mattel's Barbie trademarks."

The company alleges ChinaBarbie.com, owned by Global China Networks, has damaged Mattel's good name.

Mattel has demanded that the domain name, which is registered with registrar GoDaddy.com, be transferred to Mattel and that China Barbie pay the company up to $100,000 in damages as well as any profit she may have made via her paysite.

China Barbie charges members $19.95 for monthly access to photos and video clips.

Mattel Press Contact Sara Rosales told XBIZ that the company will not comment until the case is heard.

It is unclear whether other adult stars using the "Barbie" name could be subject to future trademark violation lawsuits.

As of Wednesday, ChinaBarbie.com was live online.

China Barbie was unavailable for comment at press time.

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08-23-2007, 04:13 AM

oops interesting, there are at least two more barbie sites i know ;)

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08-23-2007, 04:15 AM

Originally posted by TeenCat

oops interesting, there are at least two more barbie sites i know ;)

I bet there will be a few.

Thats why I posted. If you know of one please contact them to worn them just in case.

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08-23-2007, 04:20 AM

Originally posted by allanuk

I bet there will be a few.

Thats why I posted. If you know of one please contact them to worn them just in case.

thank you good advice, going to send them this thread ...

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08-23-2007, 04:26 AM

Yeah they sent me a letter to turn over LanieBarbie.com to them... made some good money redirecting it to : http://www.lannibarbie.com but was'nt worth fighting for the domain in court !

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08-23-2007, 04:29 AM

they cant possibly own a trademark on "Barbie"

it's a popular first name
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08-23-2007, 04:43 AM

Originally posted by Jet

they cant possibly own a trademark on "Barbie"

it's a popular first name

Popular due to the toy.

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08-23-2007, 04:48 AM

Originally posted by Jet

they cant possibly own a trademark on "Barbie"

it's a popular first name

Yes they do and they have always been lawsuit happy. Using the term Barbie on your site is asking to be sued.
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08-23-2007, 04:50 AM

money allows people to sue whoever they want, fr what they want, even if they never plan on actually *winning*

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08-23-2007, 04:50 AM

Originally posted by Dugmor

Yeah they sent me a letter to turn over LanieBarbie.com to them... made some good money redirecting it to : http://www.lannibarbie.com but was'nt worth fighting for the domain in court !

You'd have won the case.
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08-23-2007, 05:35 AM

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You'd have won the case.

hmmm dugmor fighting mattel

let do the math

mattel has MILLIONS to drag that out as long as they wish

do u think dugmor could have made millions to recoup the money from the legal fight with that domain?
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08-23-2007, 05:52 AM

Back in 2001 I had an amateur submission site and got a nasty letter from them after posting pics of someone that went by the name Barbie. She ended up having to pay them around the same thing they are asking here and changed her name to Blonde Flasher for her site etc. I had to remove all links within 24 hours and she gave them her old domain.

Mattel has always been tough on the use of that name...
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08-23-2007, 03:59 PM

Ithink it sounds like a case of 'well if they do, then so can I '.

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08-24-2007, 01:31 AM

Originally posted by Forest

hmmm dugmor fighting mattel

let do the math

mattel has MILLIONS to drag that out as long as they wish

do u think dugmor could have made millions to recoup the money from the legal fight with that domain?

Exactly.... I already made a huge profit just from buying the domain and redirecting it to Lanie's site with my linking code !

I made the most when she was on the cover of Penthouse !

I fu*ked her... so what else could I want from a the word "Barbie"

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08-27-2007, 12:56 PM

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Originally posted by Kre8t0r

Back in 2001 I had an amateur submission site and got a nasty letter from them after posting pics of someone that went by the name Barbie. She ended up having to pay them around the same thing they are asking here and changed her name to Blonde Flasher for her site etc. I had to remove all links within 24 hours and she gave them her old domain.

Mattel has always been tough on the use of that name...

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08-27-2007, 01:35 PM

Originally posted by Dugmor

Exactly.... I already made a huge profit just from buying the domain and redirecting it to Lanie's site with my linking code !

I made the most when she was on the cover of Penthouse !

I fu*ked her... so what else could I want from a the word "Barbie"

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08-27-2007, 01:39 PM

the shitty part is this all came to their attention recently due to the China making Barbies with Lead in them, so people were doing searches for China Barbie...

What are the fucking odds?
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08-27-2007, 02:09 PM

Originally posted by Dugmor

Yeah they sent me a letter to turn over LanieBarbie.com to them... made some good money redirecting it to : http://www.lannibarbie.com but was'nt worth fighting for the domain in court !

you shouldn't have given in so easily
mattel knows they don't have a case against a canadian because the canadian supreme court has already ruled against them

and they lost a case against barbiesshop.com when they tried to bring a person to court in US jursidiction.

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08-27-2007, 02:11 PM

Originally posted by Forest

hmmm dugmor fighting mattel

let do the math

mattel has MILLIONS to drag that out as long as they wish

do u think dugmor could have made millions to recoup the money from the legal fight with that domain?

dougmor is canadian, we have a loser pays legal system
so he doesn't have to make millions because mattel would have paid his legal fees when they lost.

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09-03-2007, 10:06 AM

I know this thread is a few days old now, but I just saw it.

Mattel pulled this shit with me a few months ago over my site, www.barely18barbie.com. They sent me a nice little e-mail informing me that if I didn't hand over the domain to them, along with a report of how much the site has made since it's been online, that they would sue the crap out of me. They gave me one week to hand over the domain and the earnings report.

I fucking ignored them.

One week later, they contacted me informing that my week was up and I had to hand over the domain and earnings report immediately.

I fucking ignored them again.

I haven't heard back since. That was four months ago now. I'm hoping they just forgot about it. I figured if I e-mailed them back it'd just keep them interested. Ignoring them seems to have worked... for now.

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09-12-2007, 04:42 AM

well cool

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