The District Court of Berlin recently ruled on the distinction between new separate works inspired by earlier works and the imitation of earlier works.[1] The case concerned one of the world's most famous furniture designs, the Eames Aluminium Chair. [...]
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 Court [...]
"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 rethink [...]
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 [...]
