Troutman Pepper, an Atlanta, Georgia-based intellectual property practice, secured a permanent injunction from the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of Guang Tai He Import Export, Inc., a Maryland-based flooring company, allowing the importer to use the term "SPC".
The defendant’s federal registration of the generic term “SPC,” which is used as an acronym for “stone plastic composite” flooring, resulted in more than 16 containers of the plaintiff’s flooring being detained by U.S. Customs for using the term.