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On 16/07/10 18:17, Paul Sutton wrote:
I suppose they might get away with using Ken (being a well used male name), but um... not so sure about Barbie, was it used before the plastic dolls came out? RobDunno i was more in to star wars / lego. However i expect Barbie and Ken as a name is a trade mark like windows is a trademark of Microsoft and Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. Paul
Yep I was more of a Lego fan.Doing a quick search it suggests that the name Barbie was a short form of "Barbara" which was the name of daughter of the creator of Barbie.
Ken on the other hand, well that has many meanings (according to Wikipedia anyway!). In Japanese architecture it is the distance between pillars of traditional-style buildings (amongst other things). According to Wikipedia in the 16th Century the ken was about 197cm but around 1650 it was reduced to 181.8cm.
So yeah there's probably a good case for prior art with the name Ken, but maybe not so much with the name Barbie (unless anyone knows of maybe the name Barbie originating from somewhere else?).
Probably plenty of names left in the Toy Story films though so I'd guess there are a few years left until they need to come up with something new.
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