Final month, designer Kool KIY filed a counterclaim in opposition to Nike after the sneaker and attire big sued the designer for ripping off a number of shoe designs. The designer claimed that Nike’s Air Jordan 1 and Dunk logos had been “invalid and unenforceable” and that his sneakers had been altered sufficient in order that they didn’t infringe.
Nike attorneys filed a proper response to the counterclaim earlier this week in a New York courtroom the place the discredited the originality of Kool KIY’s designs and labeled him a “serial copyist.”
“Kiy shouldn’t be a ‘cutting-edge design home,’” reads Nike’s response. “There may be nothing artistic or ‘cutting-edge’ about stealing Nike’s designs and changing the Swoosh with Kiy’s brand. Slightly, Kiy is a serial copyist who has profited from its intentional theft of a few of Nike’s most iconic silhouettes. Kiy’s counterclaim, suffering from incorrect and irrelevant allegations, is nothing greater than an try and distract from Kiy’s personal willful infringement.”
Kool KIY responded to Nike’s response on IG, saying that Nike is now stealing colorways from him earlier than asserting {that a} new sneaker is dropping this weekend.
“This The Response I Get From A Multi Billion Greenback Big … “Serial Copyist” However They Stealing My Concepts & Colorways Now 😂 , Extra Like Serial Offered Out Tour Dates , Serial Traces In Each Metropolis lol… This Black Excellence Man .. Y’all Will By no means Discredit This Shit I Constructed .. Exhibiting Everyone Like Me That We Don’t Want The Man To Make It .. FUCK THAT ! New KIY DROP THIS FRIDAY .. Obtain Kiy Studios In App Retailer !”
