“MGA has been irreparably harmed by abusive litigation spanning seven years to date, expending countless resources, and will never be able to recover its prior market position or undo the damage Mattel caused to the value of MGA’s company, brands, goodwill, and reputation,” MGA attorney Maxwell Blecher of Blecher & Collins in Los Angeles wrote in court papers filed on Jan. 17. “Here, the undisputed facts are that Mattel prevented the sale of a competitive product and destroyed the value of a competitive company by pursuing scorched earth, baseless litigation as an anticompetitive business objective.”
MGA is fighting to salvage its antitrust suit, filed on Feb. 2, 2011, against Mattel and its chief executive officer, Robert Eckert, alleging violations of Section 2 of the Sherman Act and abuse of process.
