All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 34
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Skechers USA has been sued by Under Armour, a big...
Skechers USA has been sued by Under Armour, a big and growing American sports brand. The lawsuit alleged that a sports circuit training commercial “slavishly copies” a highly successful “Protect This House” campaign released by Under Armour five years ago. Skechers will not comment on pending litigation.
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Rafeeque Ahmed, president of the Farida group, was unanimously elected...
Rafeeque Ahmed, president of the Farida group, was unanimously elected to a two-year term as chairman of India's Council for Leather Exports, taking the place of R.K. Jalan of Arvind Footwears. Subash Kapoor was elected vice chairman.
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A new three-year project in the framework of EU's Erasmus+...
A new three-year project in the framework of EU's Erasmus+ program, entitled “High-End Shoe (HES) - Innovative Training for Luxury Footwear Manufacturing,” aims to train footwear technicians and designers for the luxury footwear industry. The kick-off meeting of the project took place on Jan. 22-23 in S. Joao da Madeira, ...
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Ralph Lauren has decided to stop marketing a line of...
Ralph Lauren has decided to stop marketing a line of 36 sneakers, following a series of judicial complaints filed by Converse against several brands and retailers last autumn, including Aldo, H&M and Walmart, charging counterfeiting of its Chuck Taylor styles. Reportedly, Ralph Lauren and Converse decided to settle the matter ...
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Office has received an official warning by the Information Commissioner's...
Office has received an official warning by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the U.K. after personal data of more than one million of its customers were left exposed due to a hacking incident. According to the ICO, the hacker bypassed the technical measures the multichannel shoe retailer had put ...
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Rejecting Gucci's claims, a French court has ordered the brand...
Rejecting Gucci's claims, a French court has ordered the brand to pay €30,000 to Guess because of the nuisance caused by its six-year-old trademark dispute with the American firm. Gucci had requested damages of €55 million, arguing that it had infringed its Three G trademark. Gucci lost a similar case ...
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Candice Cooper has won a lawsuit against another German firm,...
Candice Cooper has won a lawsuit against another German firm, Semler, which it had accused of infringing on the design of its Rock sneaker. The higher Düsseldorf state court agreed that it was too similar to the Tracy model marketed by Candice Cooper since 2009.
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Crocs has lodged a series of legal complaints in India,...
Crocs has lodged a series of legal complaints in India, claiming infringement of its trademark and design rights, against a number of companies including Bata India, Suncorp Exim, Bioworld, Relaxo Footwear and a Chinese firm, Coqui. All the cases relate to cheap alleged imitations of Crocs' shoe styles. The cases ...
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After three rounds of negotiations, employers in the German footwear...
After three rounds of negotiations, employers in the German footwear and leathergoods sector, represented by HDS/L, reached a compromise with the labor unions on wage increases. They will grow by 3.2 percent as of Jan. 1 and by a further 2.1 percent on Feb. 1, 2016. Individual employees are also ...
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The European Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market, OHIM,...
The European Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market, OHIM, refused a request made by Lidl, the German discount stores company, for the annulment of a registered Crocs trademark. The authority rejected the argument, made by Lidl, that the Crocs shoe models only feature a variation of a design that ...
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Ugg Australia has created a special “Ensure Authencity” link at...
Ugg Australia has created a special “Ensure Authencity” link at counterfeit.uggaustralia.com to help consumers avoid fake products, especially in preparation for the holiday season. Thousands of counterfeit websites advertise fake Ugg products using ambiguous wording such as “cheap uggs,” “discount uggs,” or “uggs on sale.” The company has taken legal ...
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HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, will be...
HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, will be integrated from next year into the T+M, the German textile and fashion industry federation. The idea is to defend the joint interests of the shoe and apparel sector at the political level in Berlin as well as in Brussels. As ...
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Tommaso Cancellara has been selected to run Assocalzaturifici, the Italian...
Tommaso Cancellara has been selected to run Assocalzaturifici, the Italian shoe industry association, starting next month. He takes the place of Eugenia Girotti, who acted as general manager on an interim basis after the departure last summer of Fabio Aromatici, who is now supervising the international development of Fiera Milano. ...
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Tiggers Shoes and its four trading companies applied for insolvency...
Tiggers Shoes and its four trading companies applied for insolvency proceedings at the local court of Pirmasens in November. The company markets the Eject and Tiggers brands in Germany and abroad. Three employees are affected by the insolvency proceedings, among them Gerhard Mayer, the chief executive officer. The shoes are ...
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Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) has created a...
Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) has created a resource center to help shoe companies and customs professionals to work with footwear customs classifications. A dedicated website will provide additional data as new issues arises and new trade rulings are made by the U.S. Customs & Border Protection agency.
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Acting as a Community Court for the whole European Union,...
Acting as a Community Court for the whole European Union, the Paris court of appeals has acknowledged the distinctiveness of Havaianas' graphic trademark and confirmed its validity, concluding that it is readily identifiable. Alpargatas Europe feels that the verdict settles the company's claims against four - five defendants in the ...
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There were no results from a first round of negotiations...
There were no results from a first round of negotiations over wage increases between the unions representing German shoe workers and their employers, represented by HDSL. The unions have requested an increase of 6 percent.
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Zumba Fitness, a fitness company in Florida, has filed...
Zumba Fitness, a fitness company in Florida, has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Steve Madden over its launch of a line of shoes called Madden Girl Zumba Wedge Booties
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Prada has confirmed media reports that its joint chief executives,...
Prada has confirmed media reports that its joint chief executives, Patrizio Bertelli and Miuccia Prada, are being further investigated by Italian authorities for alleged tax evasion, but added that it was not concerned by the probe. The couple are husband and wife and key shareholders in the public company, which ...
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Assomac, the Italian industry association for footwear manufacturing machinery, welcomed...
Assomac, the Italian industry association for footwear manufacturing machinery, welcomed a delegation from Ethiopia at its head office in Vigevano and the local industrial cluster on Oct. 9 as part of a tour organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Unido). The delegation, which comprised 15 government officials, visited ...
