"In the Central California case, Spin Master is asserting U.S. Patent No. 9868073, titled Transformable Toy and issued to Spin Master this January. It claims a transformable toy having a toy body, an auxiliary component coupled to the body and rotatable towards the body to a rollable closed position or away from the body to an open position, an auxiliary component elastic element which biases the auxiliary component to the open position away from the body, a locking component including a latch and a keeper to retain the auxiliary component in the closed position and magnetically-responsive members associated with the locking component which disengage the latch from the keeper when the members are brought into the proximity of each other."
"The invention results in a magnetic-force-expansion style toy which is rollable and addresses design difficulties preventing such toys from being used in shooting games. The technology covered by the '073 patent has been incorporated into the series of Bakugan rollable toys developed by Spin Master and released in 2007 in conjunction with the Japanese-Canadian anime adventure series Bakugan Battle Brawlers."
"According to Spin Master's complaint, the Bakugan toy series has been a major success for the company, earning $1 billion in sales in just over a decade. Bakugan is a combination of the Japanese words for 'to explode' (baku) and 'sphere' (gan) and Spin Master's toys were designed to be spherical, rollable toys which would 'explode' into transformable forms."
Spin Master Ltd., a Toronto-based toy company, filed a patent infringement complaint against Alpha Group US in the Central District of California on February 7th. The complaint asserts U.S. Patent No. 9868073, which covers transformable toys featuring a toy body with an auxiliary component that rotates between open and closed positions using magnetic locking mechanisms. This patent technology is incorporated into Spin Master's Bakugan toy series, which launched in 2007 alongside the anime series Bakugan Battle Brawlers. The Bakugan toys have generated over $1 billion in sales within a decade. Spin Master has filed similar patent infringement actions against Alpha Group in the United Kingdom and Canada, indicating a coordinated multi-jurisdictional enforcement strategy.
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