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Cross Border Litigation: Tech 21 UK Ltd v Logitech Europe SA

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Logitech Europe SA is a Swiss company which makes a protective case for iPads called "Big Bang" . This YouTube video shows how it works. Tech21  is a British company on Eel Pie Island  which is not far from where I grew up which makes something very similar called an "Impact Folio" . Here's their video.  Spot the difference if you can. Between Jan 2013 and Jan 2014 the two companies tried to work together to develop a range of cases to be sold by Logitech but they fell out. Shortly afterwards Logitech started to sell Big Bangs and Tech21 Impact Folios. On 10 Sept 2014 Tech21 received the following letter from Jonas Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH  of Cologne in the Federal Republic of Germany: "We are representing our client Logitech Europe S.A., Daniel Borel Innovation Center, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland in matters of Intellectual Property. We have been informed that you entered into a manufacturing and sales agreement with our ...