{"id":2519,"date":"2024-09-06T18:26:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/birkenstocks-sandals-clogs-infringement-dispute-allowed-to-proceed\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T18:26:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T18:26:11","slug":"birkenstocks-sandals-clogs-infringement-dispute-allowed-to-proceed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/birkenstocks-sandals-clogs-infringement-dispute-allowed-to-proceed\/","title":{"rendered":"Birkenstock&#8217;s Sandals, Clogs Infringement Dispute Allowed to Proceed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Birkenstock\u2019s patent and trademark infringement suit against footwear competitor White Mountain International is moving forward, after a federal judge in Massachusetts found similarities between the companies\u2019 sandals and clogs at issue.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1QN3Lkw-56NGiN9jm9w6JWOuOel_-eVdl\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sept. 4 opinion<\/a>, U.S. District Judge\u00a0Patti B. Saris for the District of Massachusetts concluded that Birkenstock adequately alleged claims for design patent, trademark and trade dress infringement against White Mountain and\u00a0American Exchange Time, finding similarities between White Mountain\u2019s\u00a0shoes and Birkenstock\u2019s two-strap sandal, big-buckle sandal, toe-loop sandal, and its Boston and Buckley clogs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birkenstock\u2019s patent and trademark infringement suit against footwear competitor White Mountain International is moving forward, after a federal judge in Massachusetts found similarities between the companies\u2019 sandals and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2277,3322,3324,323,892,1849,3323],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-allowed","tag-birkenstocks","tag-clogs","tag-dispute","tag-infringement","tag-proceed","tag-sandals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}