Questions for Mattel
Why did Mattel get involved in the http://ww.sorehands.com/mattel lawsuit? They bought this lawsuit along with TLC. Their continued actions exposed Mattel to potentially $45,824,832.31 in punitive damages (results from a survey).
Why does Mattel pay over $40,000,000 to someone who screws up their job?
Why does Mattel go after Barbie Benson's site, http://www.barbiebenson.com when there is no potential for confusion?
With the CPHack case, why did Mattel waste the money on lawyers? The problem was fixed the next day. All that the lawyers accomplished was to burn money and the creation of hundreds of mirror sites all over the world to be created in protest. More information is at http://www.robinlionheart.com/mirrors/cp4.html.
Would Mattel file a libel lawsuit against "Wheelchair Barbie" if she complained that the Malibu beach house violated the ADA?
Mattel continued a libel lawsuit against someone they paid over 2 years salary for telling the story of that lawsuit. Why would Mattel continue with a libel lawsuit against someone that they paid a judgment of over 2 years salary?
Why does Mattel threaten a student who puts up a Barbie joke? Where it is clear that there was no violation. Details at http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~bwillems/humor/mattel.html.
How did the CPHack programmers get the CyberPatrol source code? This is discussed in the MSI press release at http://www.cyberpatrol.com/news/Press/000327.htm
Why has Mattel's name become synonymous with frivolous and abusive lawsuits?
How much money have Mattel spent on these frivolous and abusive lawsuits?
How much money was wasted on the Aqua "Barbie Girl" lawsuit?
How much money was lost because of "Pink Anger?" Or Barrister Barbie? More information at http://www4.zdnet.com/pccomp/opinion/opin0398/dvor0398.html and http://ezone.org/barbie/censored/bbanger.htm
If Mattel spent this money on a more thorough due diligence instead of these lawsuits, where would the stock price be today?
Check out http://www.sorehands.com/mattel to see what a mess that Mattel's management gets into.