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Upper Deck Forged Over 500,000 Yu-Gi-Oh Cards

11 Jan

Posted by shadejon as CCGs

A California court slammed Upper Deck for forging over 500,000 Yu-Gi-Oh cards and distributing them to Vintage Sports Cards to repackage. Apparently, Upper Deck did this – after losing the Yu-Gi-Oh license to Konami – as a deliberate form of mutually assured destruction.

The court found that UD forged cards, violated trademark, infringed copyright, breached contract, and slandered. The court also refused to limit UD’s liability.

Damages will be assessed in a trial later this month. Nice knowing you, Upper Deck.

(source, via)

One Response

William Baldwin

January 12th, 2010 at 6:39 am
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I hope that news of this spreads like wildfire and nobody ever does business with Upper Deck or Vintage again. I’ve never played Yu-Gi-Oh!, but how can anyone ever trust these companies after this?

Now, they prove they are even less classy by trying to take Konami down with them – I don’t know if Konami is guilty as well (countersuit hasn’t reached resolution), but it still smells of another low class move of a company that has earned a low class reputation.

Sadly, Upper Deck has obtained the Marvel license for a few years even after this story broke initially.

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