Trunki has won more than a hundred product and design awards, including several from Design Week, Progressive Preschool, Mother and Baby Magazine, D & AD, children's retailer Right Start, Practical Parenting magazine and the Nick Jr. television channel.
Inventor Rob Law MBE came to public attention in 2006 following an appearance on BBC2's Dragons' Den programme in which panellist, Theo Paphitis, tugged and broke the strap of a sample Trunki.
On 3 November 2015, the United Kingdom Supreme Court started to hear a case over the extent of legal protection of the Trunki design.
PMS International, a Hong Kong firm, produce a similar range of products branded Kiddee Cases.
The issue to be decided is "What significance attaches to the fact that a graphical representation of a Community registered design shows no surface decoration?