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Kao: Kaomi Sleep holds provisional patent and fights 113+ scam copycats

Caitlin Kao · Advice Line with Kip Tindell of The Container Store · Sep 10, 2026 · at 31:26

Caitlin Kao, founder and CEO of Kaomi Sleep, discusses intellectual property defense and knockoffs with Guy Raz and Kip Tindell.

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“Right now we have a provisional patent for the Sherpa Nest, and then we also have the Sherpa Nest pending a trademark, and we actually have experienced a lot of scams and copyright infringements. I think we had over a 113 different accounts scamming other people using our product and images, and we have been able to successfully take some of them down just by serving them DMCAs, and so that's what we've been doing so far to protect our brand.”

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