All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 35

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    DJP Holdings has reached a settlement with Donald J. Pliner,...

    2017-02-11T00:00:00Z

    DJP Holdings has reached a settlement with Donald J. Pliner, founder and former designer of the eponymous brand, and his wife, Lisa Pliner, in a lawsuit filed against the couple last year. DJP Holdings, the new parent company of Donald J Pliner footwear lines, filed a suit against the Pliners ...

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    The European Union (EU) is supporting the footwear industry in...

    2017-02-11T00:00:00Z

    The European Union (EU) is supporting the footwear industry in Pakistan with a new e-learning tool on shoe-pattern making in Urdu. The tool was inaugurated by Anne Marchal, the EU deputy head of mission to Pakistan, alongside the Pakistan Mega Leather Show 2017 in Lahore on Jan. 29. Marchal handed ...

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    Hungary is the 11th country to be represented by CEC,...

    2017-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Hungary is the 11th country to be represented by CEC, the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry, led by Cleto Sagripanti. On Dec. 15, CEC general assembly in Brussels formalized the membership of the Association of the Hungarian Light Industry (AHLI), which represents manufacturers of shoes and components through ...

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    Using the money usually budgeted for Christmas presents, Assocalzaturifici has...

    2017-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Using the money usually budgeted for Christmas presents, Assocalzaturifici has donated ten new beds for patients at a regional hospital of Fermo, in the Marche region where many shoemakers operate, following the earthquake that struck several times the town of Amandola and other towns in the region between August and ...

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    Deckers Brands has attacked H&M in a federal court in...

    2017-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Deckers Brands has attacked H&M in a federal court in Los Angeles, charging that boots sold in its stores imitate Ugg's Bailey Button style

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    The World Trade Organization (WTO) has received a complaint filed...

    2017-01-19T00:00:00Z

    The World Trade Organization (WTO) has received a complaint filed by China on the European Union's rules on calculating what constitutes dumping. The document says that, since China acceded to the WTO, it had been agreed that specific price-comparison rules would apply for the country for a transitional period of ...

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    Matt Priest, president of the Footwear Distributors & Retailers of...

    2016-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Matt Priest, president of the Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA), will assume the title of chief executive of the Washington-based association, which he joined in 2009

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    Juan Carlos Fernández de Salort, chief executive of Pons Quintana,...

    2016-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Juan Carlos Fernández de Salort, chief executive of Pons Quintana, the footwear brand in the Spanish island of Menorca, is to take up a parallel role as the first-ever president of the organizing committee of the Momad Shoes exhibition in Madrid, which became an independent trade show in 2013. He ...

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    Inescop, the Spanish institute for footwear research, will work with...

    2016-12-23T00:00:00Z

    Inescop, the Spanish institute for footwear research, will work with the Arsutoria design school to present and demonstrate its design software at international fairs. Arsutoria's teachers have been holding courses at Inescop since the 1990s.

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    According to reports in the local media, the Indonesian government...

    2016-12-07T00:00:00Z

    According to reports in the local media, the Indonesian government may raise excise taxes on exports of unprocessed and semi-finished leather to restrict sales abroad, amid a shortage of the raw material locally. The excise taxes currently range between 15 and 16 percent. The amount of the possible tax increase ...

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    The Court of Appeals in the U.K. has confirmed that...

    2016-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The Court of Appeals in the U.K. has confirmed that the sale of grey market goods, also known as “parallel imports,” is now subject to criminal liability under the country's trademark laws. Parallel imports are authentic goods bought outside of a maker's intended chain of distribution and imported to compete ...

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    A new Italy-China Fashion and Creative Council has been established...

    2016-12-07T00:00:00Z

    A new Italy-China Fashion and Creative Council has been established to promote the relations between the two countries in the fashion and design sectors. The first committee was launched on the occasion of Expo Milano last year. The project is backed by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, the Italian ...

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    The victory of Donald Trump in the presidential elections is...

    2016-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The victory of Donald Trump in the presidential elections is not helping the footwear line of his daughter Ivanka Trunk, which is marketed by Mark Fisher. Shoes.com, the North American online shoe retailer, pulled the line out of its website after a Californian marketing specialist, Shannon Coulter, launched a boycott ...

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    Airwair International has sued an American supplier of women's footwear,...

    2016-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Airwair International has sued an American supplier of women's footwear, Wanted Shoes, claiming that it infringed its trademarks for the design of the outsole and upper of one of its Dr. Martens models, the Platinum Bootie. The lawsuit was filed in the District Court of Northern California.

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    Several reports published in the last few weeks suggested that...

    2016-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Several reports published in the last few weeks suggested that the European Union was going to impose new anti-dumping duties of 16.5 percent on certain non-athletic leather shoes from a number of suppliers in China and Vietnam. Following consultations with the Confederation of the European Footwear Industry (CEC) and other ...

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    Sioux reached an out-of-court settlement with the German Olympic Sports...

    2016-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Sioux reached an out-of-court settlement with the German Olympic Sports Association, DOSB, and German Sport Marketing (DSM) resolving the dispute about the termination of the sponsorship agreement between DSM and Sioux. The sponsorship contract with DSM was supposed to run to Dec. 1. Sioux dismissed the claim made by the ...

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    Adidas has filed a lawsuit against Bally's U.S. subsidiary in...

    2016-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has filed a lawsuit against Bally's U.S. subsidiary in connection with several footwear designs. In its complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Portland Division) in late August, the sports giant alleges that Bally is offering for sale and selling footwear featuring two ...

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    Miguel Angel Martinez has been made chairman and director of...

    2016-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Miguel Angel Martinez has been made chairman and director of Inescop, the Spanish research institute for the shoe industry

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    Ricosta is participating in a German government program for development...

    2016-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Ricosta is participating in a German government program for development of innovative projects at three Ukrainian stitching factories that work for the children's shoe company. The project will run until the spring of 2018. Ricosta is also working together with three other companies in the sector to develop a dedicated ...

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    Louis Vuitton has won in the trademark lawsuit filed by...

    2016-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Louis Vuitton has won in the trademark lawsuit filed by New York-based LVL XIII Brands and its founder Antonio Brown in July 2014. The plaintiff alleged Louis Vuitton sold footwear that was “confusingly similar” to its own. The suit centered on the rectangular toe places that appear on both brands' ...