Mobile Accessory Company Battles On To Stop Copycats - Lexology

PopSockets LLC v. Fab Cellular LLC et al, Civil Action No. 1:22-cv-04521-SCJ (N.D. Ga., Nov. 14, 2022)

The collapsible mobile instrumentality accessory adhered to the backmost of your telephone whitethorn beryllium successful usurpation of the Lanham Act. PopSockets LLC is suing Fab Cellular LLC, Fab One Enterprises LLC, and respective individually named Defendants for trademark infringement for their protected people POP and the three-dimensional configuration of the mobile instrumentality grip. PopSockets assertion that the Defendants infringe these protected trademarks by selling confusingly akin products connected fashionable marketplaces similar Amazon. Defendants marketplace and merchantability mobile telephone grips nether the sanction FAB POPS.

PopSockets LLC claims violations for trademark infringement nether the Lanham Act Sections 1114 Registration and 1125(a) False Designation of Origin, and seeks attorneys’ fees and a assemblage trial.

In 2018, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) issued a wide exclusion bid prohibiting the importation of immoderate similar, collapsible compartment telephone grip aft PopSockets filed a Section 337 ailment against 14 named Defendants. The ITC recovered the occupation truthful wide arsenic to merit a wide importation ban.

The lawsuit has been assigned to Judge Steve C. Jones.