The Wall Street Journal has been writing about Mattel's lawsuit against Bratz and has a rundown on the upcoming trial on the WSJ Law Blog. Bratz, "the only girls with a passion for fashion," knocked Barbie from her throne when they hit stores in 2001. At issue in Barbie's suit is whether the man behind the Bratz concept was at Mattel when he dreamed up the attitude-laden dolls.

Allegedly, the person who broke the news to Barbie about the designer's possible betrayal is now a blogger at Jezebel. In 2003, when she broke the story, she was writing as Maureen Tkacik at the Wall Street Journal. Now, she's Moe at Jezebel and she's ignoring her summons for the trial!

Her Jezebel post starts off, "I'm supposed to be in court in Riverside County, California right now." She's totally got the Bratz spirit:

[Mattel] finally convinced me and seven or eight lawyers to show up in a conference room someplace downtown for a few hours of grilling about a story about which I couldn't have ethically provided any information even if I remembered it, which I of course did not. As we left, my lawyer, the in-house counsel of Dow Jones, marveled at the billable hours that had been assembled for our presence alone. It was enough to fund a reality show-worthy bar mitzvah. And they'd been at this case for years!

Today the case is supposed to go to trial and I am apparently, according to an email from the Gawker office manager, to be there, although I am not, because I don't leave my house to buy toilet paper if there is perfectly decent newspaper lying around, and the thing is going down in California.

Be careful, Moe. That Barbie knows how to fight!

Does This Look Like "Intellectual" Property To You? [Jezebel]
Brawl Over Doll Is Heading to Trial [Wall Street Journal]
Barbie Battles Bratz as Toy Makers Head to Trial [WSJ Law Blog]
To Lure Older Girls, Mattel Brings In a Hip-Hop Crowd [Wall Street Journal]