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> c) Patents and copyrights are the defences that companies like Peak Design need to use.

In this case a design patent[1] (which is NOT the same as a normal patent) is the only hope. But that's pretty unlikely to succeed here given how similar the PD version is to older designs.

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/types-patent-applicatio...




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