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Topps taking Upper Deck to court!!

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Anyone seen this? Sorry if this has already been posted but I couldn't find a thread about it.

Topps taking Upper Deck to court over design

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  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I just saw the story on Yahoo.

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  • ndleondleo Posts: 4,182 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I hope Topps wins. UD should make their own classic designs rather than stealing it from Topps.
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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    HAH! the card looks nice, they're jealous. image
  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    Upper Deck did that before in using Topps 71 design for one of their sets and also the 65 design if I remember correctly
  • zep33zep33 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭
    That's from an OPC subset and UD owns the license for OPC. Wonder why the article doesn't mention that and what kind of defense that will give UD


  • smetsmet Posts: 359 ✭✭


    << <i>That's from an OPC subset and UD owns the license for OPC. Wonder why the article doesn't mention that and what kind of defense that will give UD >>



    You sure about that? I always thought OPC was a rebranded Topps product.
  • zep33zep33 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭
    they acquired it a couple years ago - don't know the details but they do own it
  • F1ferrariF1ferrari Posts: 583
    I always thought that Topps had a deal granting OPC the rights to the designs for their Canadian set. If that's the case, then the designs were (and still are) Topps' property, and even though UD has started using the OPC name on their cards, it wouldn't give them the rights to use any previous OPC/Topps designs. I'm not anti-UD, but this is design theft, plain and simple. But then again, I never understood why Topps didn't hit them a few years ago when they used the '71 and '65 sets for UD Vintage...
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  • RipkenRipken Posts: 559 ✭✭✭
    Topps' first attempt to stop distribution of the cards has failed in court.
  • rbdjr1rbdjr1 Posts: 4,474 ✭✭

    Interesting info (circa 2/09) in The Beckett Blog about UD and them copying the '71 Topps/OPC design:

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  • ICE9ICE9 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I always thought that Topps had a deal granting OPC the rights to the designs for their Canadian set. If that's the case, then the designs were (and still are) Topps' property, and even though UD has started using the OPC name on their cards, it wouldn't give them the rights to use any previous OPC/Topps designs. I'm not anti-UD, but this is design theft, plain and simple. But then again, I never understood why Topps didn't hit them a few years ago when they used the '71 and '65 sets for UD Vintage... >>


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  • zep33zep33 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭


    << <i>They're all in bed with each other... >>



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  • gameusedhoopgameusedhoop Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭✭
    They did the same thing with the Upper Deck, O-Pee-Chee hockey. They did a parallel set using the 1979-80 design.
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