Luxury footwear brand Aquazzura has dropped trade dress infringement claims against Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the US president, and the dispute has now been withdrawn.

Italian shoemaker Aquazzura sued (pdf) Trump at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York in June last year, accusing her of copying the trade dress of the ‘Wild Thing’ shoe.

The design of the ‘Wild Thing’ sandal, which consists of a fringed front strap, a self-tie ankle strap with tassel ends and a stiletto heel, was allegedly copied by Trump to make the ‘Hattie’ sandal.

As carried in IP