Legal & Courts  February 5, 2020

PopSockets pops for plenty to protect its brand

BOULDER — Facing challenges on multiple fronts, David Barnett is a man caught in the middle.

Barnett, chief executive of PopSockets, the Boulder-based company that makes grips that attach to the back of cellphones and other mobile devices, came to a U.S. House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee hearing at the University of Colorado Boulder law school auditorium on Jan. 17 to accuse dominant online platform Amazon of “strong-arming” it and failing to remove products that impersonated his company’s wares.

Meanwhile, PopSockets remains enmeshed in protracted lawsuits against some online sellers for allegedly selling its products at cut-rate…

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With BizWest since 2012 and in Colorado since 1979, Dallas worked at the Longmont Times-Call, Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Post and Public News Service. A Missouri native and Mizzou School of Journalism grad, Dallas started as a sports writer and outdoor columnist at the St. Charles (Mo.) Banner-News, then went to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before fleeing the heat and humidity for the Rockies. He especially loves covering our mountain communities.
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