The injunction was to have been enforced on February 11, 2009, at the earliest, the same date that Mattel and MGA would once again be in court to present their cases for appeal, and mandated that MGA must remove, at its own cost, all Bratz product from store shelves, reimburse retailers for the product, turn over the recalled product to Mattel for disposal, and destroy all marketing materials and molds and materials used in the production of the dolls.

These dolls were made from completely different molds and do not resemble any of the dolls made by Mattel in North America.

Levine and Minkoff, a long-time Mattel Toys veteran, both came over from the hand-held Mattel games engineering team.

Unfortunately, by the time the ECS made its retail debut, an internal shake-up at the top levels of Mattel Electronics ' management had caused the company's focus to shift away from hardware add-ons in favor of software, and the ECS received very little further marketing push.

Atari even hired several programmers from Mattel's Intellivision development studio, prompting a lawsuit by Mattel against Atari that included charges of industrial espionage.

Using secrecy to combat industrial espionage had failed to stop rival companies from reverse engineering the Mattel and Atari systems and hiring away their trained game programmers.

Mattel also produced Mary-Kate and Ashley fashion dolls from 2000 to 2005.

It was tied to the same-named toyline from Mattel.

* Mattel released three waves of action figures, vehicles and accessories in the Secret Wars toyline from 1984 to 1985.

Early concerns of this nature by collectors were countered by assurances from Mattel that ( a ) Matchbox would continue to develop their product line independently from Hot Wheels, and ( b ) that it was intended that Matchbox represent " real " and traditional vehicles, while fantasy would primarily be placed firmly in Hot Wheels territory.

New owners Mattel expanded the regular Matchbox series to include 100 models in 1999, changed it back to 75 models for 2001, and once again increased the series from 75 to 100 models from 2008.

Mattel Inc. and MGA Entertainment Inc. returned to court on January 18, 2011 to renew their battle over who owns Bratz, which this time includes accusations from both companies that the other side stole trade secrets.

In 2004, a series of " Crash Dummies " animated shorts were commissioned for the FOX network, thus spawning another series of toys from Mattel through the Hot Wheels brand.

In 1992, when Mattel Inc. began selling a Barbie doll that said math class is tough, the voices of protest that started with the Systers list played a role in getting Mattel to remove that phrase from Barbie's microchip.

The panel from the Court of Appeals said Judge Larson had abused his discretion with his ruling for Mattel, concluding that Bryant's employment agreement could have, but did not necessarily, cover ideas as it did designs, processes, computer programs and formulae, which are all more concrete.

Belair says neither MGA nor Mattel " sought or obtained permission ... to copy, reproduce, create derivative works from or distribute " his " copyrighted " work.

Mattel Inc. and MGA Entertainment Inc. returned to court on January 18, 2011 to renew their battle over who owns Bratz, which this time includes accusations from both companies that the other side stole trade secrets.

Mattel purchased the company in 1999 for $ 3. 8 billion from entrepreneur Kevin O ' Leary, renaming it " Mattel Interactive ", in what has been called one of the worst acquisitions in corporate history.

The C16 was intended to compete with other sub -$ 100 computers from Timex Corporation, Mattel, and Texas Instruments ( TI ).

* 1994, Mattel bought Wham-O from Kransco.

There were various production runs by Mattel, Hasbro, PLAYCO, Toy R US, and others.

The " Golden Age " of cap guns was roughly a 20 year period following World War II when television became popular and such companies as Nichols, Hubley, Kenton, Kilgore, Wyandotte, Classy, Mattel, Actoy, Esquire, George Schmidt, and Stevens made millions of cap guns in various versions.

Mattel produced many Thingmaker sets as follow-ups to the original " Creepy Crawlers " throughout the 1960s, utilizing a variety of themes, aimed at both boys and girls.

There were also several exclusive single mold sets, such as Superman and Tarzan, and original Mattel concepts like Squirtles and Gangly Danglies.

Mattel also produced a Vertibird and Hot Wheels play sets based on the MegaForce theme.

In November 2006 4. 4 million Polly Pocket play sets were recalled by Mattel after children in the United States swallowed loose magnetic parts.

Several of the units were later used by Mattel Electronics engineers when it was discovered that, with a few minor modifications, a Keyboard Component could be used as an Intellivision software-development system in place of the original hand-built development boards.

As a result, Mattel Electronics set up a competing internal engineering team whose stated mission was to produce an inexpensive add-on called the BASIC Development System, or BDS, to be sold as an educational device to introduce kids to the concepts of computer programming.

Unfortunately, the amount of speech that could be compressed into a 4K or 8K ROM cartridge was limited, and the system did not sell as well as Mattel had hoped ; while the initial orders were as high as 300, 000 units for the Intellivoice module and its initial game-cartridge offerings, interest in future titles dropped rapidly until the fourth and last Intellivoice title, Tron: Solar Sailer, sold a mere 90, 000 units.

Unlike Scrabble, which is controlled by competitors Hasbro ( in the U. S .) and Mattel ( in Europe ), Upwords is at this time solely under the worldwide licensing control of Hasbro, making it the only such worldwide word game property that can be Internet-marketed and Internet-offered with complete licensing control.

An example of divination or fortune-telling as purely an item of pop culture, with little or no vestiges of belief in the occult, would be the Magic 8-Ball sold as a toy by Mattel, or Paul II, a cephalopod of the Sea Life Aquarium at Oberhausen used to predict the outcome of matches played by the German national football team.

Cabbage Patch doll licensee, Coleco Industries, filed for bankruptcy, but dolls continued to be made, the contract going to Hasbro Industries and later to Mattel.

Also in 2005, certain Yesteryear castings which had been released in the Tyco / early Mattel era as part of the " Muscle Car " series of Matchbox Collectibles were re-released in 1971-style retro packaging and retro wheels as Super Kings — considered by many to be a strange name choice, since models of this nature had been called Speed Kings in the ' 70s.

It appears that this classic brand, once saved by Matchbox, may be allowed by Mattel to languish or die once again.

Realizing that there could be a gap in the market, Handler suggested the idea of an adult-bodied doll to her husband Elliot, a co-founder of the Mattel toy company.

In 2011, Mattel introduced Japan Ken, the first Ken doll to be included in the Dolls of the World collection, which was formerly a Barbie-only line.

On August 26, the jury decided that Mattel was to be paid just US $ 100 million in damages, citing that only the first generation of Bratz had infringed on Mattel property and that MGA had innovated and evolved the product significantly enough that subsequent generations of Bratz could not be conclusively found to be infringing.

Designer Roger Sweet claims to be the chief creator of He-Man and MOTU, although this is not officially acknowledged by Mattel, and disputed by some other contributors.

The Agreement provided, however, " that nothing in the License should be construed as an assignment or grant to Mattel of any right, title or interest in or to Conan, and that all rights relating thereto were reserved by CPI ( except only for the licensee to use the property as specifically agreed to ).

< p >" In January 1982, Mattel requested that the License Agreement be terminated.

On April 14, 1982, CPI and Mattel entered into a termination agreement which provided that " all materials created and or developed by Mattel for use in connection with products under the Conan License " would be delivered to CPI's agent, CPC, which would have " the exclusive right to use such material.

To further expand on this initial barbarian theme, Mattel hired comic book writers and artists such as Donald F. Glut and Earl Norem to create additional characters and their backstory, posters, package inlays, box art and mini-comics to be distributed with the action figures.