A jury awarded MGA $88.5 million in damages, endorsing MGA's claim that Mattel had engaged in corporate espionage to ferret out and misappropriate the smaller company's trade secrets.
To his detractors, Mr Sherman is a shameless copy-cat who seeks to misappropriate the hard-won intellectual property of research-oriented drug companies.
The Chinese company said that it intended to vigorously defend itself in court and that it was "not necessary for it to misappropriate the trade secrets of others".
While the NAADS records show the items were delivered and the beneficiaries overwhelmed by the supplies, police learned that the supplier and beneficiaries connived to misappropriate the goods.
But they are not worried about that, she added, because "it becomes a self-healing platform" — that is, people who discover anyone trying to misappropriate the campaign materials are likely to use social media to blow the whistle on the miscreants.
Better late than never is pretty cold comfort when you consider the ugly social divisions that malicious entities have fueled by being so freely able to misappropriate the amplification power of social media.
