Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit December 22, 2003, 02-56272 (Mattel, Inc. v. Greiner & Hausser GmbH)

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.