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Jury finds in favor of toy maker in legal dispute with rapper Clifford ‘T.I.’ Harris and his wife – Daily News

Jury finds in favor of toy maker in legal dispute with rapper Clifford ‘T.I.’ Harris and his wife – Daily News

The Harris family claimed the hair, dress and name of the dolls were nearly identical to the OMG Girlz, a trio of teenage singers promoted by the couple from 2009 until 2015, and during a brief 2017 reunion.The toy maker prevailed on Friday, May 26 after their attorneys argued the girl group allowed their trademark on the OMG Girlz name to lapse in 2018.“They abandoned it,” Jennifer Keller, an MGA attorney, said of the group’s original OMG Girlz name.” The OMG Girlz’ attorney, John Keville, pointed out that the group had a sizeable following on social media and were popular in the Atlanta area, where they were most active.

In their testimony, MGA presented a survey of about 1,500 buyers of the dolls that found no consumers who thought there was a connection between the OMG Girlz and the OMG LOL Suprise dolls.Keville’s team attempted to counter the survey by calling four fans of the group as witnesses, who testified they bought the dolls because they believed they were associated with the OMG Girlz.

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