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Entertainment & Sports

Jan. 26, 2010

Trading Card Dispute Starts Trial

Trial is set to begin today to determine how much trading card maker The Upper Deck Co. owes its former business partner for counterfeiting hundreds of thousands of popular Japanese animation trading cards.

By Ciaran McEvoy

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - A two-week jury trial is set to begin today to determine how much The Upper Deck Co., one of the nation's top collectible card businesses, owes its former business partner in damages for counterfeiting hundreds of thousands of popular Japanese animation trading cards.

Konami Digital Entertainment Inc., a Japan-based publisher of video games, trading cards and other e...

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