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What could have been Razor Distinction

robbiez — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:42:03 +0000

Got these images in this morning. These would have been the designs of Razor Distinction if it had not been cancelled. This set has however been shelved and these cards will never see the light of day.

These were preliminary mockups of the design, hence the Tampa Bay listing of team for Inoa.

Upper Deck Claims Victory Over Topps

robbiez — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:04:37 +0000

Got this press release from Upper Deck today about the lawsuit that was filed by Topps over the OPC 2009 set. Upper Deck claims victory due to the fact that a New York judge denied a temporary restraining order to prevent the 2009 Upper Deck Series II and 2009 O-Pee-Chee.

Sports Card Company Firmly Denies Topps’ Allegations of Any Wrong-Doing

North Las Vegas, NV (April 15, 2009) – The Upper Deck Company won a legal victory today when a New York judge denied a Temporary Restraining Order sought by Topps to prevent the release of 2009 Upper Deck Series Two and 2009 O-Pee-Chee baseball card products.

Yesterday, the Topps Company filed a lawsuit against Upper Deck claiming copyright infringement. Upper Deck strongly denies the allegations and did, in fact, do its due diligence when researching, clearing and securing approvals to use the card designs. Upper Deck received necessary legal approvals and proper protocol was followed to ensure there were no infringements.

“Based on the tactics utilized by Topps thus far, Upper Deck questions the validity of this claim,” said Bernd Becker, Upper Deck’s vice president of Trading Cards. “We strongly disagree with the allegations. In today’s challenging economic environment, it seems petty and counterproductive to file such a frivolous suit.”

Topps files suit against UD

robbiez — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:01:47 +0000

Sorry there has been a delay in posting lately folks, hopefully will record a new episode of The Card Podcast tonight. But this news came out last night that Topps has filed suit against Upper Deck over the Upper Deck 2009 O-Pee-Chee Brand using the same design as 1971 and 1975 Topps. The story follows after the link.

Here is the AP story from Yahoo.com here is the meat of the story though.

In its lawsuit, Topps described how it believes Upper Deck mimicked its design with just a few variations.

It said similarities between each company’s cards included the use of a colorful, divided two-tone border, the player’s photograph superimposed on a thin white border, the player’s autograph toward the bottom of the picture and the use of an image of a baseball on a bottom corner of the card.

Topps said its competitor’s cards will confuse or deceive customers because each of the Upper Deck designs are nearly identical to the Topps cards.

Topps asked that Upper Deck be ordered to destroy the cards and turn over any profits, along with other unspecified monetary damages.

Matt Laporta 07 Superfractor Pulled!

robbiez — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:34:37 +0000

Andrew aka All in Cards from FreedomCardBoard.com has had one of the best pulls in recent memory in his live group breaks on UStream. He pulled as pictured above the Matt Laporta 2007 Bowman Chrome Draft Picks and Prospects Superfractor. This isn’t the first huge card from this product that Andrew pulled, he also pulled the David Price / Luke Hochevar Head of the Class Super, but this is the first that he has got his hands on since the Price was never redeemed.