Ugg Can’t Monopolize Shearling Boot Design, Quince CEO Testifies

The CEO of affordable luxury brand Quince rejected “the idea that one single company should monopolize a shearling boot” during testimony Thursday in Ugg brand owner Deckers Outdoor Corp.'s lawsuit accusing Quince of infringing its Ultra Mini Boot.

Deckers’ counsel, Brent H. Blakely of Blakely Law Group, spent a considerable duration repeatedly asking Siddhartha Gupta whether Quince sent a manufacturer a photo of and link to the Ultra Mini to copy. Gupta said the manufacturer approached Quince to make the boot, one he said the manufacturer produces for many other brands, and that his company used Ugg as “a shorthand ...