All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 51
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Skechers has filed a patent infringement suit against Steve Madden...
Skechers has filed a patent infringement suit against Steve Madden and its Stevies subsidiary in Los Angeles' federal court. The complaint concerns Skechers' patent on the toe cap design of its Twinkle Toes style.
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The battle over “ugg” is over. The dueling lawsuits between...
The battle over “ugg” is over. The dueling lawsuits between Deckers Outdoor and Emu Australia have been settled under confidential terms, and all actions will be dismissed. Last December, Deckers sued Emu, saying that the Australian company was infringing on its trademark by using the Ugg name. Emu countersued, arguing ...
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The National Health Service of the U.K. has forbidden hospital...
The National Health Service of the U.K. has forbidden hospital workers from wearing Crocs or similar rubber clogs while working, having found numerous instances of sharp objects penetrating their soles. The Telegraph reported that the U.K. is just the latest of many countries, including the U.S., Canada, Sweden and Austria, ...
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The Mexican parliament still has to vote on this measure,...
The Mexican parliament still has to vote on this measure, but the Mexican government has no plans to renege on its decision to eliminate quotas and duties on imports of Chinese shoes as of Dec. 11. Chinese footwear currently incurs duties of 70 percent in Mexico. Bruno Ferrari, Mexico's finance ...
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The bill for the proposed Affordable Footwear Act has been...
The bill for the proposed Affordable Footwear Act has been finally introduced for debate in the U.S. House of Representatives, after several years of lobbying by Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) and other pressure group. If adopted, the legislation would suspend tariffs as high as 37.5 percent for ...
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Brown Shoe Company has filed a lawsuit against Mark Lardie,...
Brown Shoe Company has filed a lawsuit against Mark Lardie, a former divisional president for wholesale operations of the company who has also acted as general merchandise manager at its Famous Footwear retail chain. The suit alleges that Lardie has violated a non-competition clause in his contract with Brown ...
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Christian Dior is the latest target of Christian Louboutin, which...
Christian Dior is the latest target of Christian Louboutin, which is accusing the company of copying its signature red soles. Dior is rumored to be ready to launch a collection of red-soled shoes, and Christian Louboutin has asked for a court order to prevent it. Apparently the company hired a ...
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The Pakistani government is reported to be considering a ban...
The Pakistani government is reported to be considering a ban on exports of wet blue leather to help protect the country's tanners and its shoe and leathergoods industry
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Columbia Sportswear, acting along with OutDry Technologies, the Italian developer...
Columbia Sportswear, acting along with OutDry Technologies, the Italian developer of breathable membranes that it acquired last year, has appealed to the European Commission to check whether the practices of W.L. Gore & Associates are in line with the European Union's competition laws. The plaintiffs allege in their complaint that ...
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Cimac, a laboratory run by the Italy footwear industry association,...
Cimac, a laboratory run by the Italy footwear industry association, Anci, has found that 48 percent of Chinese-made leather shoes analyzed contained hexavalent chromium, a chemical compound that increases risks of lung cancer, according to Anci. The laboratory was commissioned to carry out the toxicity test by the national observatory ...
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Industry groups in India including the Council of Leather Exports...
Industry groups in India including the Council of Leather Exports are calling on the government to step in to stop further decline. For the quarter ended March 31, the manufacturing sector's growth was 5.5 percent, down from 15.2 percent the previous year. CLE says that the high cost of power ...
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Students are finally reaping the reward of a donation of...
Students are finally reaping the reward of a donation of 248,000 Hong Kong dollars (€22,225-$31,850) that UBM Asia, the trade show organizer, donated to help rebuild the Caoheba Primary School, which was destroyed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The money went to Salvation Army Hong Kong and Macau Command, and ...
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Workers in Indonesian sportswear factories will have more rights under...
Workers in Indonesian sportswear factories will have more rights under a new pact that manufacturers and brands such as Adidas, Nike and Puma have signed with textile, clothing and footwear unions in the country. The pact will allow workers to unionize at supplier factories. Recent research by the International Textile, ...
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Starting on July 1, a new standard for children's canvas...
Starting on July 1, a new standard for children's canvas rubber shoes will take effect in China. The new standard makes safety the top priority, with an eye to improving quality and driving technology. The standard, the first for children's canvas rubber shoes, was set by China's General Administration of ...
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Giovanni Burani, charged with the fraudulent bankruptcy of Mariella Burani...
Giovanni Burani, charged with the fraudulent bankruptcy of Mariella Burani Fashion Group, which he headed up for many years, has been freed after spending two months in jail and eight more months in his home under surveillance
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The government of Uttar Pradesh in India has eliminated a...
The government of Uttar Pradesh in India has eliminated a tax on raw hides in response to the appeal of the leather industry. The tax was suspended in 2006 for five years through the end of last March, and the Mandi Parishad, the agricultural produce marketing board there, asked for ...
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The French Parliament has issued a preliminary favorable vote on...
The French Parliament has issued a preliminary favorable vote on a proposal to ban the use of phtalates in shoes and other products sold on French territory
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Twenty-eight people have been ordered to pay more than €25,000...
Twenty-eight people have been ordered to pay more than €25,000 to Daermei Shoes Trading, a Chinese company that lost 50,000 pairs of shoes in a fire at its facility in Elche, Spain, in 2004. The accused all worked in the shoe industry, and when several Chinese companies announced they were ...
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The May 11 issue of La Conceria, the famous Italian...
The May 11 issue of La Conceria, the famous Italian leather weekly, lays out the results of an investigation conducted by a journalist in the shoe shops of Milan's Chinatown, on via Paolo Sarpi and surrounding streets. Some of the shoes were found holding excessive doses of toxic substances such ...
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HDS, the German shoe industry federation, has joined other organizations...
HDS, the German shoe industry federation, has joined other organizations and individual companies such as Adidas, Burberry, Lacoste and Nike in signing a memorandum of understanding supporting a proposal by the European Commission to strengthen the fight against the sale of counterfeit products over the internet.
