The case was filed in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York by Swatch Group of Companies which include Blancpain, Breguet, Glashütte, Hamilton, Jaquet Droz, Longines, Mido, Omega, Tissot, and Swatch proper. And The defendant Samsung Electronics Co. LTD. and Samsung Electronics America.
Defendants ( Samsung) offer numerous watch faces that bear identical or virtually identical marks to the Trademark of Swatch Group Companies – watches, which has been a huge investment developed and designed over many years.
Swatch seeks an order against Samsung to disclose the following:
- The number of infringing watches faces.
- The number of any other watch faces offered on the Samsung Galaxy App Store that use a trademark belonging to any one of the Swatch Group Ltd.'s affiliated companies.
- The number of downloads of all such watch faces.
- The name and contact information of each third-party developer of such watch faces