Often, copycats who use someone else’s trademarks try to worm their way out of litigation with one “simple trick”: trademark parody. However, as “My Other Bag” had to learn due to a recent judgement by the Taiwan Intellectual Property [...]
"Damier" is French and means "checkerboard" or "chessboard". And such a chessboard pattern is at the heart of a years long struggle of Louis Vuitton's to secure it's trademark rights in the pattern. LV calls its damier "one of the [...]
The American label Michael Kors took the German discount supermarket LIDL to court over the sale of handbags– without success. The loss hinged on MK’s status as a “prestigious” brand, which the Landgericht Hamburg suprisingly denied. [...]
2020, it seems, is a year of great change in the fashion industry and especially for its fashion shows. Designers all over the world raised their voice to reform the over-heated fashion schedule. It began with calls for a [...]
The Corona crisis is forcing many people around the world to rethink their habits and usual consumer behavior and to discuss alternative ways of living and working. Even the fashion world is not spared from this development. Under the [...]
In trademark law there is a saying,“Use it or lose it,” which is just what it sounds like: in order to amass and maintain rights in a trademark, its owner mark must use it. […]
