CBS has found itself at the center of a lawsuit regarding "Bert the Farting Hippo," a recurring prop on NCIS, The Wrap reports. The company Folkmanis, Inc., which manufactured the original stuffed ...

Folkmanis Inc., a stuffed animal purveyor, is suing CBS Broadcasting for selling a puppet of a farting hippo featured on NCIS. Folkmanis alleges that CBS violated copyright laws by selling "Bert the ...

Is Bert the Farting Hippo — the flatulent puppet and “NCIS” mascot — intellectual property? The whole idea may smell funny to you, but not to Folkmanis, the Emeryville, Calif., puppet company that has ...

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Bert the Farting Hippo has appeared on the crime show and is sold at the online CBS Store. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large The first version of the stuffed Hippo came in 2002. The ...