Skechers USA, Inc. said it filed a lawsuit against Fila U.S.A. Inc. 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 Skechers’ patent and trade dress rights and for unfair competition and dilution. The suit states that Fila is selling the infringing products under the name Fila Amazen Memory Moc.
"As we’ve explained previously, Skechers has made extensive investment in designing, developing, advertising and patenting our Skechers GO Walk product line and has built Skechers GO Walk into a name and look globally recognized and synonymous with Skechers,” stated David Weinberg, chief operating officer of Skechers. “Competing in the open marketplace is always preferable, but now Fila is selling its infringing footwear to Skechers wholesale customers and in other sales channels where Skechers GO Walk is sold, and we believe this is causing us enormous damage. Our investment in Skechers GO Walk requires us to respond in kind to any competitor attempting to gain an unfair advantage over Skechers and our retail partners by infringing on one of our most valuable intellectual properties. We will continue to enforce our intellectual property rights against any company that develops footwear that infringes on the patents and trade dress of Skechers GO Walk as well as our other proprietary product lines.”
