Dear Candi Chatters, It has come to my attention that Integrity Toys is still producing dolls under the Candi® trademark. And they do so illegally. Unfortunately, We regret to inform you that Integrity Toys and Hamilton Toys could not come to a favorable agreement. Integrity Toys lost there Candi® license on January 16, 2003. (Termination letter enclosed). We told Integrity Toys that they could break the news to their dealers and once they did we both would make joint statements. We have not heard from Integrity Toys for 3 months. And they continue to produce Candi® dolls!
Hamilton Toys can no longer remain silent. For the safety of our clients. (And Integrity's). Any dealer that sells a CANDI® DOLL, bought and produced after January 16, 2003, by Integrity toys, does so illegally. Therefore, becoming an accomplice to a criminal act. Integrity Toys assured us that they would not produce any dolls using the CANDI® or CANDI GIRL® REGISTERED TRADEMARKS after January 16th 2003. Candi® Basics are being produced illegally, and without authorization from Hamilton Toys. I can't believe they put it on their website! Hamilton Toys is the sole owner of the CANDI® LICENSE. Anyone selling a FAKE CANDI® PRODUCT from Integrity Toys (Anything produced after January 16th 2003) will be seen as an accomplice and will be included in a lawsuit against Integrity Toys. We have a right and an obligation to protect our trademarks.
Sincerely, Helena Hamilton CEO Hamilton Toys And the Creator of the CANDI® DOLL
TERMINATION LETTER
October 16, 2002
Via: Fax (410) 8853530 and Federal Express
Mr. Percy Neusum Integrity Toys Inc. 100 Chestnut Springs Road Chesapeake City, Md 21915
Re: CANDI License
Dear Mr. Neusum:
In accordance with the TERMS of our AGREEMENT, Hamilton Toys, Inc. hereby is giving Integrity Toys, Inc. three (3) months advance written notice that the License granted to Integrity, for the CANDI® dolls and molds shall be canceled as of January 16, 2003. No new CANDI® doll lines are to be produced beyond the "Weekender Gift Set" the 3 "Fashion Forward" designs, and the remaining "Manhattan Moods" CANDI® doll lines. All on collection disk. Now in production in China. We cannot continue to do business with a company (Integrity Toys) that so blatantly & illegally KNOCK-OFF our doll product lines. While our molds are in their (Integrity Toys) possession. Then when confronted tells us, "We aren't admitting to anything. But we can work something out." Words cannot express my level of disappointment with your company. I never dreamed your could be capable of such a fraud. Our products have been on the market for 13 years now. We know our work, and so do our customers. And you are deliberately trying to confuse the market place for your benefit.
You are on notice that after January 16, 2003, Integrity shall have no right to make any further use of the CANDI® trademark or to manufacture or sell dolls or doll bodies made from the CANDI® molds, including without limitation, both the "old CANDI® molds" and the "new CANDI® molds" referred to in the AGREEMENT. Our attorneys will have to work out the rest of our differences.
You are also put on notice that this notice to cancel in no way limits or reduces the obligations of Integrity Toys, Inc. to Hamilton Toys regarding royalties payable or past due. As of this date we have not seen a quarterly report on the CANDI® license from Integrity Toys for 2002.
Sincerely Yours, Hamilton Toys, Inc.
By Helena Lisandrello, Pres.
This thing about Hamilton dolls, haven't we heard this same song sung before? We who have been with Candi dolls all these years since she was 1st with Paul David....to us this is very familiar. What is the deal here, She's always accusing people of this same thing. Is everyone a crook in her eyes? Why does she have so much trouble with the people she works with? She accused Paul David of this same thing which he vehemently denied & then blasted her with his own scatheing accusations. Now they are together again...I guess...maybe she'll turn on him again too. What a soap opera! Pat H.
I´ve read the letter and I understand the words but I don´t understand the accuses. What does she mean with "illegally knock off" of Candis? Does she think Integrity is selling the dolls too cheap or what? Maybe my English is not good enough to catch the sense.
Greetings from Germany Petra
--- Pat Hawkins jhawkins1320@charter.net schrieb: > This thing about Hamilton dolls, haven't we heard
this same song sung before? We who have been with Candi dolls all these years since she was 1st with Paul David....to us this is very familiar. What is the deal here, She's always accusing people of this same thing. Is everyone a crook in her eyes? Why does she have so much trouble with the people she works with? She accused Paul David of this same thing which he vehemently denied & then blasted her with his own scatheing accusations. Now they are together again...I guess...maybe she'll turn on him again too. What a soap opera! Pat H.
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Petra, it is not only you, NO ONE understands!
helena hamilton is just out of her mind because she cannot get products out, and has no design talents. A bitter person, and truly sad.
Rene --- petra foede foede20@yahoo.de wrote:
I´ve read the letter and I understand the words but I don´t understand the accuses. What does she mean with "illegally knock off" of Candis? Does she think Integrity is selling the dolls too cheap or what? Maybe my English is not good enough to catch the sense.
Greetings from Germany Petra
--- Pat Hawkins jhawkins1320@charter.net schrieb:
This thing about Hamilton dolls, haven't we heard
this same song sung before? We who have been with Candi dolls all
these
years since she was 1st with Paul David....to us this is very
familiar.
What is the deal here, She's always accusing people of this same thing. Is everyone a crook in her eyes? Why does she have so much trouble with the people she works with? She accused Paul David of this
same
thing which he vehemently denied & then blasted her with his own scatheing accusations. Now they are together again...I guess...maybe she'll turn on him again too. What a soap opera! Pat H.
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Hi Rene, Petra and All,
I really don't know much about the specific details of this whole thing with HH but I do know it is a disaster and has been with all the bickering and fighting, etc. One thing I can say for sure is that all the clothes I have ever had or seen are a disaster, in my opinion, she can't put one color together with another. I noticed that when I first started to collect Candi which would have been around the time they put out the white eyelet lingerie and robes. Even something as pretty as that was ruined because there would be purple silk floweron one side and one orange or any other color that didn't match on the other! And just look at the Bettie Page dolls. I absolutely loved them - the face was great but those clothes on the boxed Betties were terrible! Nothing matched - for example the that was supposed to be like Marilyn Monroe (who I love and collect everything I can get my hands on) - She had on a white dress, a yellow hat, BLACK short gloves - I forget what color shoes she had on but they were probably brown or something else that didn't match,LOL. What an insult to Marilyn!! I feel that I should specify that all of the above is just my opinion so I don't get sued for defamation of character, LOL.
Karla ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rene O'Brien" renendollz@yahoo.com To: "petra foede" foede20@yahoo.de; candichat@dolls.de Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 9:04 PM Subject: Re: deja vu all over again
Petra, it is not only you, NO ONE understands!
helena hamilton is just out of her mind because she cannot get products out, and has no design talents. A bitter person, and truly sad.
Rene --- petra foede foede20@yahoo.de wrote:
I´ve read the letter and I understand the words but I don´t understand the accuses. What does she mean with "illegally knock off" of Candis? Does she think Integrity is selling the dolls too cheap or what? Maybe my English is not good enough to catch the sense.
Greetings from Germany Petra
--- Pat Hawkins jhawkins1320@charter.net schrieb:
This thing about Hamilton dolls, haven't we heard
this same song sung before? We who have been with Candi dolls all
these
years since she was 1st with Paul David....to us this is very
familiar.
What is the deal here, She's always accusing people of this same thing. Is everyone a crook in her eyes? Why does she have so much trouble with the people she works with? She accused Paul David of this
same
thing which he vehemently denied & then blasted her with his own scatheing accusations. Now they are together again...I guess...maybe she'll turn on him again too. What a soap opera! Pat H.
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Hi, Group,
I wonder if Mikelman didn't make the implied accusation for Ms Hamilton. In Catalog 184 he has two pictures with two dolls facing and side on. The first caption reads:
Integrity's new Giselle, is she a knock off of the new Hispanic Candi mold? You decide. Hispanic Candi on the left, Giselle on right
The second caption reads:
Helena Hamilton, owner of the Candi registered trademark says the Candi trademark has been revoked from Integrity Toys.
Now, while I may be new to this issue,(I started collecting Candi in September 2002, and am now just collecting Integrity's wonderful girls and others of Jason Wu's works,) I find the whole thing too bitchy for my tastes. If I wanted soap opera I would watch one.
If Ms hamilton has a real issue, let her react legally: SUE. If not, I hope she keeps her rancid gossip off of our doll doscussion pages.
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Amen to that!
Both Helena and Mikelman are not known to have great reputations in the doll world. They really do deserve eachother. They were esentially at eachother's throats a few years back when their first attempt at Candi didnt work. What makes them think it's going to work out this time?
Candi or no Candi, Integrity still knows how to make a good doll, which is ultimately what I am concerned about. I am a doll collector and I want DOLLS NOT DRAMA! If Helena has a problem (which is ever so often), she should take it to court, simple as that.Between all the beauties that they are creating I could care less what Hamilton/Mikelman will come up with, I will ceertainly not buy it.
Rene --- "Beryl M." hikepax@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi, Group,
I wonder if Mikelman didn't make the implied accusation for Ms Hamilton. In Catalog 184 he has two pictures with two dolls facing and side on. The first caption reads:
Integrity's new Giselle, is she a knock off of the new Hispanic Candi mold? You decide. Hispanic Candi on the left, Giselle on right
The second caption reads:
Helena Hamilton, owner of the Candi registered trademark says the Candi trademark has been revoked from Integrity Toys.
Now, while I may be new to this issue,(I started collecting Candi in September 2002, and am now just collecting Integrity's wonderful girls and others of Jason Wu's works,) I find the whole thing too bitchy for my tastes. If I wanted soap opera I would watch one.
If Ms hamilton has a real issue, let her react legally: SUE. If not, I hope she keeps her rancid gossip off of our doll doscussion pages.
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I think that Beryl and Rene both hit the mark right on the proverbial nail head. Helena, Mikelman, and Paul David really do deserve each other and we at CandiChat as well as all collectors everywhere do not deserve to be subjected to this "rancid gossip", "soap opera", and "drama" anymore. You may be new to Candi, Beryl, but you are very perceptive in your observations. Rene, as always, you call them as you see them and as usual, are dead-on accurate. Bravo to you both!
Leanne "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rene O'Brien" renendollz@yahoo.com To: "Beryl M." hikepax@yahoo.com; "Pat Hawkins" jhawkins1320@charter.net Cc: candichat@dolls.de Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 12:01 PM Subject: Re: deja vu all over again
Amen to that!
Both Helena and Mikelman are not known to have great reputations in the doll world. They really do deserve eachother. They were esentially at eachother's throats a few years back when their first attempt at Candi didnt work. What makes them think it's going to work out this time?
Candi or no Candi, Integrity still knows how to make a good doll, which is ultimately what I am concerned about. I am a doll collector and I want DOLLS NOT DRAMA! If Helena has a problem (which is ever so often), she should take it to court, simple as that.Between all the beauties that they are creating I could care less what Hamilton/Mikelman will come up with, I will ceertainly not buy it.
Rene --- "Beryl M." hikepax@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi, Group,
I wonder if Mikelman didn't make the implied accusation for Ms Hamilton. In Catalog 184 he has two pictures with two dolls facing and side on. The first caption reads:
Integrity's new Giselle, is she a knock off of the new Hispanic Candi mold? You decide. Hispanic Candi on the left, Giselle on right
The second caption reads:
Helena Hamilton, owner of the Candi registered trademark says the Candi trademark has been revoked from Integrity Toys.
Now, while I may be new to this issue,(I started collecting Candi in September 2002, and am now just collecting Integrity's wonderful girls and others of Jason Wu's works,) I find the whole thing too bitchy for my tastes. If I wanted soap opera I would watch one.
If Ms hamilton has a real issue, let her react legally: SUE. If not, I hope she keeps her rancid gossip off of our doll doscussion pages.
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