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MATTEL, INC. v. GREINER AND HAUSSER GMBH

No. 02-56272.

354 F.3d 857 (2003)

MATTEL, INC., a Delaware corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GREINER AND HAUSSER GMBH, a German business entity; R. Hausser, an individual; M. — L. Hausser, an individual; Does 1 Thru 10, inclusive, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 22, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald L. Olson (argued), Michael R. Doyen, Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Andrian Mary Prueta, Michael T. Zeller, Steven Vaughan, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Joseph M. Burton (argued), Daniel J. Herling, Duane Morris LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Before Robert BOOCHEVER, TASHIMA, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

CLIFTON, Circuit Judge.

Barbie, the ubiquitous doll produced by Mattel, has been a regular visitor to our court.1 This time she brings with her an issue of personal jurisdiction — not over her, but over a German toy company which has questioned her ancestry by asserting that Barbie was a copy of its doll and that Mattel had infringed its patent and other intellectual property rights. The German company, Greiner...

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