Skechers USA, Inc. filed a lawsuit against DB Shoe Company, LLC, a California-based retailer, for selling footwear that infringes on the popular Skechers Go Walk product line.
The suit, filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, seeks compensatory and punitive damages as well as injunctive relief for infringing on seven separate design patents of Skechers. The suit states that DB Shoe Company is selling the infringing products under the name SUPER DREAM WALK 816.
Skechers has invested tremendous resources into designing, developing, and advertising our Skechers GO WALK® product line. We have built Skechers GO WALK® into a name and look globally recognized and synonymous with Skechers, which benefits not only Skechers but all of its retail partners, stated David Weinberg, Chief Operating Officer of Skechers. We will not allow our competitors and retailers to infringe on one of our most valuable intellectual properties, and we will continue to enforce our intellectual property rights against any company that develops footwear that infringes on the designs of Skechers GO WALK® as well as our other proprietary product lines.
Skechers is being represented in the suit by Marshall Lerner of Kleinberg and Lerner in Los Angeles.
