All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 43
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Local authorities have dropped a legal case against Wortmann, opened...
Local authorities have dropped a legal case against Wortmann, opened in September 2010, under which the big German company had been suspected of circumventing the former anti-dumping duties of the European Union against leather shoes imported from China and Vietnam. The authorities found little evidence to justify such a suspicion ...
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After losing a round in its legal battle against Yves...
After losing a round in its legal battle against Yves Saint Laurent in the U.S., Christian Louboutin has reportedly lost a similar fight against Zara. A French court has apparently ruled that the red-soled shoes marketed by Zara did not violate Louboutin's intellectual property rights. It has levied a fine ...
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Converse is sueing Cora in Belgium, requesting damages of €374,000....
Converse is sueing Cora in Belgium, requesting damages of €374,000. The supermarket chain has been accused of advertising the sale of Converse shoes at low prices, although the shoes were imitations of the authentic models.
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Gucci has won a three-year legal battle against Guess and...
Gucci has won a three-year legal battle against Guess and its footwear licensee, Marc Fisher, in a U.S. court. The judge in the case went along with Gucci's accusations of trademark and copyright infringement, barring Guess from using Gicci's Quattro G pattern, its green-red-green stripe and other square G marks. ...
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The 75 members of the Comité Colbert, which groups French...
The 75 members of the Comité Colbert, which groups French luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Hermès and Chanel, have launched a wide-ranging campaign to fight counterfeiting throughout Europe, where the black market has thrived thanks to the internet. With the help of customs agents at 18 airports throughout France, ...
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A new Chinese office and laboratory of Satra in Dongguan...
A new Chinese office and laboratory of Satra in Dongguan was officially opened on May 14
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A group of local institutions in the British county of...
A group of local institutions in the British county of Northamptonshire are planning to establish an International Footwear Foundation for designers, researchers and students. The county, which has a 900-year history of shoemaking, is already home to the BLC Leather Technology Center and to Satra, the international certification body. The ...
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Indonesia and Malaysia have signed an agreement to be allies,...
Indonesia and Malaysia have signed an agreement to be allies, rather than competitors, in their footwear industries. The Malaysian Footwear Manufacturers Association and the Indonesian Footwear Association (Aprisindo) signed the cooperation agreement in the hopes that footwear producers in both countries band together to grow despite competition from companies elsewhere.
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After 27 U.S. Congress members sent a letter supporting the...
After 27 U.S. Congress members sent a letter supporting the easing of tariffs through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (see Shoe Intelligence of May 7), another 18 have weighed in on the other side. They are asking Ron Kirk, U.S. trade representative, to keep the tariffs in place, arguing that they are ...
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A total of 25 large, medium and small companies have...
A total of 25 large, medium and small companies have already joined an information coalition around a Brussels-based lawyer for the repayment of anti-dumping duties that they paid to the European Commission on leather shoes imported from China and Vietnam between 2006 and 2011. The lawyer, Edwin Vermulst, who belongs ...
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The German Leather Federation, VDL, has established the new ECO2L...
The German Leather Federation, VDL, has established the new ECO2L label to designate products that are made using best energy-efficiency low-carbon technologies. The federation calls it as “the world's first calculation and auditing model for determining the energy efficiency and the carbon emissions of a tannery.” The Leather Research Foundation ...
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Twenty-seven members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a...
Twenty-seven members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter to the country's trade representative, Ron Kirk, asking him to ensure that the footwear industry was treated fairly in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP creates a new free-trade zone and is lauded as an opportunity for the U.S. to ...
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The Mexican government is said to have reached a new...
The Mexican government is said to have reached a new agreement with the Chinese government about shoe imports from China, which had been subject to heavy duties for a long time until last December. The new deal, which runs from last May 1 to the end of December 2014, reportedly ...
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A federal court in Illinois has ordered a permanent injunction...
A federal court in Illinois has ordered a permanent injunction against 3,007 Chinese-based websites that were selling counterfeit Ugg Australia products. It also awarded Deckers Outdoor Corporation, owner of Uggs and the plaintiff in the lawsuit, $686 million in damages. The judge, acknowledging that it was unlikely that Deckers would ...
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The city council of Chengdu, in the southern Chinese province...
The city council of Chengdu, in the southern Chinese province of Sichuan, has decreed that all the local tanneries must move elsewhere by 2015, along with other polluting industries
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The International Council for Hide Skins and Leather Traders' Association...
The International Council for Hide Skins and Leather Traders' Association chose John Reddington, president of the U.S. Hide, Skin and Leather Association, to be its new president at its 83rd general annual meeting last month. Nick Winters, president of the Syndicat Général Des Cuirs et Peaux in France, and Zhang ...
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The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America has deemed Nicaragua...
The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America has deemed Nicaragua a “rising star” that has great potential as a big supplier of footwear to the U.S. The FDRA, in its 2012 Annual Footwear Sourcing Forecast, noted that China was the source of 85.3 percent of all shoe imports in the ...
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Le Monde, the French newspaper, recently reported that thousands of...
Le Monde, the French newspaper, recently reported that thousands of children in the Italian region of Campania have been working to help support their families during the recent economic turmoil. The paper reported that 54,000 children left school between 2005 and 2009, and that they have been working up to ...
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A momentous jury-free trial has started in a U.S. court...
A momentous jury-free trial has started in a U.S. court in New York between Gucci and Guess, the American sportswear company. Footwear News, which is covering the proceedings, reports that Guess' footwear licensee, Mark Fisher, has been challenged to explain the similarity between Guess' Melrose sneaker and one of Gucci's ...
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The mayor of Chengdu, in Sichuan province in southwestern China,...
The mayor of Chengdu, in Sichuan province in southwestern China, has told all the tanneries there that they must close down and leave the city by 2015. The China Leather Industry Association reports that the mayor, Ge Honglin, wants the city to grow thanks to industries that don't pollute. Other ...
