Shark Helmets won the lawsuit against LS2

In 2013 Shark Helmets sued LS2 following the marketing of the FF393 CONVERT modular helmet. According to the French company, the helmet marketed by Tech Design Team, the LS2 distribution company for Europe, was a counterfeit version of the European patent no. EP 1 806 986 B1, owned by Shark.

The proceedings brought at the Court of First Instance of Paris were the subject of a first instance judicial decision, pronounced on January 28, 2016, in favor of SHARK Helmets. The judges confirmed that the LS393 FF2 CONVERT model is indeed an infringement of the European patent registered by SHARK Helmets. Tech Design Team was therefore prohibited from importing, possessing, displaying, offering for sale and marketing the offending model on the French market. Tech Design Team appealed against this sentence, but it was declared that the LS393 FF2 CONVERT helmet, sold by the Tech Design Team company, constitutes an infringement of the SHARK Helmets patent, confirming the sentence already pronounced in first instance in all its provisions.

In a note released by the French company we read: “Shark Helmets will continue its legal actions to defend its innovations and thus guarantee its customers increasingly functional, exclusive and safe products.”