A longtime swanga company has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit in Texas federal court, accusing an unnamed list of online companies of selling pirated versions of the company’s wire-spoked wheels.
Texan Wire Wheels, a company that last year fitted Precinct 7 Constable cars with swangas and teamed up with Beyonce for her 2024 NFL Christmas halftime show, filed suit Aug. 20 in the Southern District of Texas against a whopping list of online sellers, court records show. While the defendants are listed as John and Jane Doe’s 1-100 and “xyz company,” lawyers for Texan Wire Wheels attached to the lawsuit a little under 30 examples of what it considers trademark infringement, court records show.
In a statement posted on the company’s website, Texan Wire Wheels said it is “implementing a program to give notice to and work with e-commerce websites and legal counsel to successfully address and remove fraudulent listings, counterfeits, and infringing products.”…