We are saddened to break the news today that The Supreme Court has dismissed the registered design infringement case brought by Trunki’s parent company, Magmatic, against PMS International. Whilst expressing sympathy for Magmatic and acknowledging that PMS had 'copied Trunki', the court ruled that the European design registration of Magmatic's award-winning ride-on suitcase, was not infringed by PMS’s lookalike product. Experts believe the decision will have far-reaching consequences for Britain’s design community. The judgment follows a two-year campaign by Trunki to uphold the 2013 High Court ruling that Trunki’s European design registration WAS infringed, after it was reversed by...

  If you’ve been following our newsfeed recently, you’ll know that we’ve been fighting a high profile legal battle against design infringement. Back in 2013, we won our case against PMS when the High Court ruled that the 'Kiddee Case' breached our design rights. Unfortunately, the decision was overturned and we’ve been forced to take the appeal to the Supreme Court. The case between Trunki’s parent company, Magmatic, and PMS International (based in Essex) will now take place on Tuesday, the 3rd of November 2015.  This battle has been hugely draining for us, both financially and emotionally. But It’s no...

If you’ve been following our newsfeed recently, you’ll know that we’ve been fighting a high profile legal battle against copyright infringement. After successfully suing PMS International in the High Court for infringing our registered Trunki designs with the Kiddee Case, the decision was unfortunately overturned by the Court of Appeal, meaning that the company is now free to sell the copycat design. This is not only a major blow for Trunki, but it means that third parties will now be able to claim that subtle differences in surface decoration render CRD protection invalid. If the ruling is upheld, it will leave...