A Hollywood dummy designer who filled "Rocky Balboa" and dozens of other big-budget films with inflatable extras is being sued by a pair of mannequin makers who say they were the first to come up with the idea of replacing humans with airheads. Plastic people-maker Crowd in a Box filed a patent infringement suit last week against The Inflatable Crowd and owner Joe Biggins for his use of "inflatable humanoid figures." "Joe Biggins made comments in various press reports that he was the inventor of these things ... but while he was using them, we were creating them and patenting them," Crowd in a Box co-owner Mark Woolpert told CourtTVnews.com.

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