Baseball card maker the Topps Company Inc. is suing one of its former artists for allegedly infringing trademarks for the grosser-than-gross Garbage Pail Kids stickers that lampooned the round-faced Cabbage Patch Kids dolls.
Topps accused Luis Diaz, a freelance artist, of selling knock-offs of the Garbage Pail Kids under the names Garbage Parody Kids and Gavage Parody Kids. The Topps cards launched in 1985 and featured characters in the style of the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls with pun-based names such as Adam Bomb, who had a mushroom cloud coming out of his head.
Topps is asking the U.S. District Court ...
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