September 06, 2024
Grammy-winning hip hop artist T.I. on Friday told jurors weighing his intellectual property suit against toymaker MGA Enterntainment that anyone could see the similarities between the company's O.M.G. doll line and the OMG Girlz pop group that the rapper co-owns, but he's not sure the company CEO knew of any alleged idea theft.
September 05, 2024
Toy company MGA Entertainment Inc.'s line of O.M.G. dolls imitated the signature looks of a pop group created by rapper T.I. called OMG Girlz, a member of the singing group testified Thursday in a California federal court retrial of a long-running intellectual property fight.
September 04, 2024
Tameka "Tiny" Harris testified Wednesday in California federal court that she was taken aback the first time she saw MGA Entertainment's line of O.M.G. dolls because she believed they ripped off the OMG Girlz pop group she created, and said a survey of her Instagram followers confirmed her reaction.
September 03, 2024
An attorney for hip-hop moguls T.I. and Tiny Harris on Tuesday told a California federal jury during opening statements in a retrial of his clients' intellectual property dispute with MGA Entertainment that the company's line of O.M.G. dolls stole their look and name from the OMG Girlz group.
August 19, 2024
Rapper T.I. can't block MGA Entertainment from questioning his customer witnesses' motivations to testify at the upcoming intellectual property retrial over the company's L.O.L. Surprise! doll line, and he likewise is barred from raising questions of cultural appropriation in that context, a California federal judge ruled Monday.
January 01, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon rule in a case that tests the limits of registering trademarks involving living public figures with a proposed mark for "Trump Too Small," and the Federal Circuit will weigh in on an appeal that pushes the boundaries of profanities as trademarks. Here are Law360's trademark cases to watch in 2024.
December 12, 2023
A California federal judge has rejected MGA Entertainment's bid to immediately appeal his order vacating the toy giant's win in rapper T.I.'s $100 million intellectual property fight and sending the case to a third trial, set for September 2024.
November 27, 2023
A California federal judge overseeing rapper T.I.'s $100 million intellectual property dispute against MGA Entertainment appeared ready at a Monday hearing to stick with his tentative decision to deny the toy giant's request to pause the proceedings and certify for interlocutory appeal his ruling that ordered a third trial in the case.
September 15, 2023
Rapper T.I. and his wife were granted a third trial in their $100 million intellectual property suit over a line of MGA Entertainment dolls when a California federal judge held Friday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Jack Daniel's ruling meant jurors had been erroneously instructed.
September 11, 2023
MGA Entertainment urged a California federal judge Monday to reconsider his tentative order requiring a third trial in rapper T.I.'s $100 million intellectual property suit against the toy maker, arguing the U.S. Supreme Court's "narrow" holding in the Jack Daniel's trademark case doesn't apply and that the jurors were correctly instructed.