November 14, 2018
Toymaker MGA Entertainment Inc. must pony up about $1 million in attorneys' fees in a game patent infringement suit after rival Innovention Toys LLC requested additional fees for a case that went up to the U.S. Supreme Court, a Louisiana federal judge said Tuesday.
April 05, 2017
In addition to the $2 million in attorneys' fees MGA Entertainment Inc. was ordered to pay in a patent infringement suit, the toymaker must also foot the legal bill for appellate proceedings that went up to the U.S. Supreme Court, a Louisiana federal judge ruled Wednesday.
March 08, 2017
Toymaker MGA is stuck paying steep damages and about $2 million in attorneys' fees in a game patent infringement suit after a Louisiana federal judge ruled Wednesday that, under Halo, the company's conduct was "deplorable" enough to warrant the big price tag.
June 25, 2014
Innovention Toys LLC on Tuesday ripped rival MGA Entertainment's request for a new trial on claims that MGA copied a patented laser beam strategy board game, saying that MGA is simply rehashing arguments that a jury already rejected.
May 06, 2014
A Louisiana federal judge on Tuesday allowed Innovention Toys LLC to increase its attorney fee award by roughly $260,000 in its patent infringement suit with MGA Entertainment Inc., finding that MGA's objections to the increase were repetitive and "meaningless."
February 26, 2014
A magistrate judge recommended Monday that toy maker MGA Entertainment Inc., which was found to willfully infringe Innovention Toys LLC's board game patent, pay $2 million to cover Innovention's legal fees because it engaged in misconduct during the case.
November 13, 2012
A Louisiana federal jury has awarded nearly $1.6 million in damages to a game company that accused MGA Entertainment of copying its patented laser beam strategy board game, bringing an end to more than five years of litigation, attorneys for the plaintiff said Monday.
March 18, 2011
A Louisiana federal judge on Thursday flipped his determination that Innovention Toys LLC cannot claim lost profit damages in its infringement suit against MGA Entertainment Inc. and two retailers over a patent covering a chess-like board game.
October 23, 2009
Innovention Toys LLC has asked a judge to ban Bratz maker MGA Entertainment Inc. and retailers Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Toys R Us Inc. from infringing its patent for a chess-like board game involving laser beams, based on a week-old ruling that the patent is valid and infringed.