{"id":42640,"date":"2010-10-06T02:35:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T07:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=42640"},"modified":"2010-10-06T15:34:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T20:34:46","slug":"lawsuit-bratz-maker-stole-idea-for-robotic-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=42640","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit: Bratz-Maker Stole Idea for Robotic Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=42641\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42641\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/10\/Innovation-First-Inc.-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Innovation First Inc.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-42641\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A Texas toy company has filed a lawsuit alleging toy maker MGA Entertainment stole its idea for a tiny robotic bug. Innovation First Inc. filed the suit in Hunt County, Texas last week over its Hexbug Nano toy. The lawsuit alleges that MGA copied Innovation First and marketed a copycat called &#8220;Legend of Nara Battling Bugs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Greenville, Texas company is seeking damages and MGA&#8217;s profits from selling its version of the thumb-sized insect robots, plus interest. An MGA spokeswoman did not immediately return a call or e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>MGA is also in a legal battle with toy giant Mattel over who owns the popular Bratz doll line. A California appeals court overturned a $100 million reward for Mattel in that case.<br \/>\nIt will be retried in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A Texas toy company has filed a lawsuit alleging toy maker MGA Entertainment stole its idea for a tiny robotic bug. Innovation First Inc. filed the suit in Hunt County, Texas last week over its Hexbug Nano toy. The lawsuit alleges that MGA copied Innovation First and marketed a copycat called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=42640\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lawsuit: Bratz-Maker Stole Idea for Robotic Bug<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 19:14:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42640"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42845,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42640\/revisions\/42845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}