Five Below Created Copycat Products, Toy Company Says in Lawsuit

Five Below Inc. was hit with a patent and trademark infringement lawsuit, along with retailer’s supplier and manufacturer, for allegedly creating and selling knockoffs of several toys.

Spin-balls LLC, doing business as Fun In Motion Toys, notified Five Below, RMS International USA Inc., and JM Manufacturing HK Ltd. twice about alleged infringement through Five Below’s Calmagami, Magic Cube and LED Poi Balls products, but the companies “stubbornly continued to engage in the deliberate, intentional misappropriation of FIMT’s intellectual property rights,” according to a complaint filed Dec. 1 in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

The allegedly ...