Kizik parent Hands Free Labs has taken its beef with Skechers USA to a court overseas in Germany.

The complaint was filed on Wednesday with the Unified Patent Court in Munich by Fast IP, LLC, the intellectual property holding company of Hands Free. While the disputed amount is stated as having a preliminary estimate of 1 million euros, or nearly $1.2 million at current exchange, that number is more likely a “holding” tally just to get the lawsuit filed and before the German patent court. Also named in the patent infringement suit were the German, Swiss, Belgian, Italian and French arms of Skechers operations across Europe.

Essentially, the complaint follows similar patent infringement claims in the U.S. Kizik lawsuit filed last month regarding the slip-in shoe technology. Hands Fr

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