Longtime Carlsbadistan readers will remember the trading card battle of 2007 waged with when Carlsbadistan based trading card company The Upper Deck Co. made an offer to buy Topps. Though the companies went through several rounds in court the sale never happened.
Now, Topps is taking The Upper Deck Company to court for allegedly stealing layouts and designs from cards Topps produced in the 1970s, according to a story in BusinessWeek.
In its lawsuit, Topps described how it believes Upper Deck mimicked its design with just a few variations. . . It said similarities between each company’s cards included the use of a colorful, divided two-tone border, the player’s photograph superimposed on a thin white border, the player’s autograph toward the bottom of the picture and the use of an image of a baseball on a bottom corner of the card. . . Topps asked that Upper Deck be ordered to destroy the cards and turn over any profits, along with other unspecified monetary damages.
Good luck on this one. As we all know, judges and juries are notoriously experts when it comes to graphic design.
[Link: BusinessWeek]
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