William Dunnegan
Attorney at Law
720 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10019
 
(212) 397-7000
Facsimile: (212) 582-3100
 
 
October 21, 1997

Ms. Charles Henry
Enterzone
1017 Bayview Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610-4032
 
Re: BARBIE Trademark Dilution

Dear Mr. Henry:

I am an attorney for Mattel, Inc.

As you may know, Mattel owns the trademark BARBIE, as well 
as numerous federal registrations for that mark. The BARBIE 
trademark has been used consistently since at least 1959. 
In connection with that use, Mattel and its licensees have 
sold billions of dollars of merchandise. BARBIE is therefore 
an extraordinarily valuable and famous trademark.

I am writing because Mattel has recently learned that you are 
sponsoring the following page on the internet.

http://www. ezone.org.1080/ez/e7/articles/napier/thoughts.html

There can be no doubt that this page unlawfully dilutes the 
BARBIE trademark in violation of 15 U.S.C. section 1125(c).

In addition to pursuing whatever additional rights it may have 
under law, Mattel demands that you (i) immediately take 
whatever steps are necesssary to remove this page from the 
Internet and (ii) confirm to me in writing within 5 business 
days that you have done so.

We await your response.

Sincerely yours,


(signed)

William Dunnegan



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