GoPro slammed with copying claim
Camera maker GoPro has been hit with a lawsuit that accuses its cube-shaped Hero4 Session camera of infringing a design patent owned by rival C&A Marketing.
C&A Marketing filed a lawsuit yesterday, November 3, at the US District Court for the District of New Jersey, alleging that its US patent D730,423 had been infringed.
The patent covers the design of C&A Marketing’s Polaroid Cube camera released in January 2014.
GoPro launched the Hero4 Session, which describes itself as the “smallest, lightest, most convenient camera yet”, in July 2015.
In its complaint, C&A Marketing cited reports including one by camera-related website Digital Photography Review, which noted the similar appearances between the two products. It also referred to various YouTube videos of consumers expressing confusion between the two products.
“GoPro has infringed and continues to infringe the ‘423 design patent by using, selling and/or offering to sell in the US, and/or importing into the US, the Hero4 Session ... which embodies the design covered by the ‘423 patent,” the complaint said.
C&A is seeking damages and an injunction preventing further sales of the Hero4 Session.
