Shark wins appeal against LS2 for helmet infringement

The infringement proceedings initiated by Shark against LS2 experienced a new episode at the end of the year with the confirmation on appeal of the first instance judgment in favor of the French brand. Explanations.

"Shark Helmets wins his lawsuit in France against LS2", rejoices the French manufacturer of helmets born in 1986 in Marseille. At the origin of this dispute is the modular FF393 Convert helmet of the Chinese brand LS2, based in Barcelona and distributed in Europe by Tech Design Team..

• MNC of June 11, 2018 :
• MNC of March 6, 2008 :

The French brand had initiated in 2013 a "procedure for infringement of the French part of its European patent No. EP 1 806 986 B1", recalls Shark who "systematically protects the technological advances developed by its teams against any illegal copy or counterfeit ".

Infringement confirmed on appeal

Inventor of the concept and of the model, "the first helmet in the world to have obtained double jet and full-face homologation", Shark won the case on January 28, 2016. The Paris tribunal de grande instance, considering that the LS2 FF393 Convert helmet was infringing Shark’s European patent, prohibited Tech Design Team "from importing, holding, exhibiting, offering for sale and marketing the offending model on the French market".

Tech Design Team having appealed against this judgment, the parties found themselves before the Paris Court of Appeal which confirmed in a judgment of October 26, 2018 the first instance judgment "in all its provisions". "Shark Helmets will continue its legal actions to defend its innovations and guarantee its customers ever more efficient, exclusive and safe products", warns the French manufacturer, of the next .

Ironically, the representative in France of LS2 (which notably sponsors Loris Baz) is none other than Jean-Marc Manuguerra, the former commercial director of Shark.

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