One day before The Avengers opens big in North America, Marvel has been hit with a merchandise lawsuit. The lawsuit is over the “Iron Man’s Lair Play Box” – or rather, the lack of it. Box-A-Mania are claiming that Marvel Entertainment knowingly misrepresented licensing rights that it held and its ability to execute the deal when it made an agreement with the toy company. Box-A-Mania, in a 23-page civil suit plus exhibits, goes after Marvel on nine counts, ranging from fraud, concealment, misrepresentation and negligence. (Read the suit here.) The defendants are Marvel Entertainment LLC, Marvel Characters Inc, Marvel International Character Holdings, LLC and Marvel Characters B.V., Inc, which is a Netherlands corporation. Of course, this could all be over as soon as it began if the court doesn’t agree with Box-A-Mania and their lawyers that a “pre-dispute agreement that any lawsuit between the parties will be adjudicated in a court trial, and not by jury trial is unenforceable.” The California-based plaintiff’s assertion is based on the Netherlands address of Marvel Characters B.V., Inc and the filing of this lawsuit outside New York state, where the agreement in question would be enforceable. On September 14, 2010, according the suit filed in LA in Superior Court today, Box-A-Mania and Marvel signed a deal for the toy company to make an Iron Man’s Lair Play Box. Box-A-Mania, which has been around since 2009, specializes in life-sized playhouses that children can ... Read More »Freida Pinto FSU Cowgirls Gabrielle Union Garcelle Beauvais Genelle Frenoy Georgianna Robertson
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