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A Large Business Stole My Exact Design And Admitted It. What Next?

Location: Colorado

I run a small hand embroidery business, it revenues $70-$100k gross a year and around 200k followers on socials.

Since it’s hand embroidery it takes a little longer and has a different style to it. Well I happened upon a design of mine in a large company, but it was machine embroidered. Now this has happened to me before but it’s always been sites like Temu or SHEIN and I can’t trace it back.

But this is a larger company, about 40 employees and very well known. And the design is a spot for spot remake. Like down to the exact colors in the same exact spot and even exact strokes. It’s clearly mine.

Problem is, since it’s machine embroidery they can generate a much larger amount than I could doing hand embroidery. They’ve also already listed the design and it’s been selling already.

I reached out and the owner responded apologizing and saying it was an outside vendor that sent them the design and they’d like to work with me to fix it.

But now I’m stuck, I asked for an amount but they said it was too much as they had only made a small batch of the items. How should I proceed?

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A Large Business Stole My Exact Design And Admitted It. What Next?

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