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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 ...
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U.S. President Barack Obama has expressed his intention to appoint...
U.S. President Barack Obama has expressed his intention to appoint Matthew Rubel to an additional term as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. Rubel, president and chief executive of Collective Brands from 2005 to 2011, has served as chairman, president and chief executive for various ...
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Skechers has announced the preliminary approval of the court of...
Skechers has announced the preliminary approval of the court of its settlement of a lawsuit launched by some shareholders over the consequences of its allegedly false advertising of its Shape-Up range of toning shoes. The complaining parties have requested payment of up to $350,000 for attorneys' fees and other expenses. ...
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Almost 6,500 pairs of counterfeit Nike and Converse sports shoes...
Almost 6,500 pairs of counterfeit Nike and Converse sports shoes were seized at the Puces de Saint-Ouen flea market, in the north of Paris, at the beginning of October. In addition to the 6,270 pairs of fake Nike and 150 pairs of fake Converse the police, accompanied by two employees ...
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Guccio Gucci, the great-grandson of the Gucci founder of the...
Guccio Gucci, the great-grandson of the Gucci founder of the same name, has been arrested for alleged fraud worth €800,000. The entrepreneur's company Esperienza, which created the “To be G” handbag range, filed for bankruptcy in December 2013. Mr. Gucci is accused of removing €800,000 in cash and assets from ...
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Crocs has been sued by U.S.A. Dawgs, a family-owned company...
Crocs has been sued by U.S.A. Dawgs, a family-owned company in Las Vegas that has been making clogs with EVA soles since 2006. Requesting a jury trial on the issue, the anti-trust complaint alleges that Crocs has been misleading consumers for more than a decade into believing that its “Croslite” ...
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LVMH and Google have announced the end of a series...
LVMH and Google have announced the end of a series of lawsuits that began in 2003, when Louis Vuitton first challenged the American company's practice of selling brand names as search words to advertisers. It argued that this system was promoting the sale of counterfeit products over the internet. The ...
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Antonio Brown, a young American designer of luxury sneakers, has...
Antonio Brown, a young American designer of luxury sneakers, has filed suit against LVMH in New York for alleged trademark infringement of its LVL XIII shoes. He claims that Vuitton has been marketing shoes that are confusingly similar to his models by placing metal nameplates across the toe boxes of ...
