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Category: Fashion Law

Posted on February 9, 2011October 25, 2012 Counterfeiting & Piracy Fashion Law Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

Not all ISP’s are created equal

@EricGoldman: Web host Akanoc hit with $32M contributory TM judgment for customers’ counterfeiting http://bit.ly/3BR6ZW Whoa. More to come … Louis Vuitton v. Akanoc jury verdict... Read more

Posted on December 27, 2010October 25, 2012 Counterfeiting & Piracy Fashion Law Trademarks and trademark law

Best of 2010: How Supreme Skateboard plays the edge

First posted on June 1, 2010. The new Case Clothesed blog out of New York Law School has a very interesting, if lightly sourced, piece about... Read more

Posted on December 4, 2010October 23, 2012 Counterfeiting & Piracy Fashion Law

New fashion IP bill: Put it on HER tab!

But which “her”?  Two fashion blogs I know on two different coasts express two very different views about this… new fashion law bill thing.  I’m... Read more

Posted on May 9, 2010October 23, 2012 Fashion Law IP Institutions

Fashion ex nihilo?

So much for Special Creation in blog graphics, I guess.  It seems that the theologically inclined among us trademark law types think alike… but in... Read more

Posted on March 2, 2010October 23, 2012 Brand Management and Branding Fashion Law Trademarks and trademark law

Foul ball?

Louis Vuitton Malletier and its lawyers demonstrate how to make sure a few seconds of what they say is trademark dilution get a lot less... Read more

Posted on December 23, 2009October 28, 2013 Fashion Law

So shoe me!

Staci Riordan reports on the big shoe-vs.-shoe design lawsuit everyone’s talking about — invoking copyright plus one Lanham Act and two New York law varieties of... Read more

Posted on August 13, 2008October 23, 2012 Fashion Law

Tank you very much

Ryan Gile reports that Cartier is upping the ante on its efforts to assert its IP rights in the “Tank watch,” shown below, and has... Read more

Posted on June 6, 2008October 23, 2012 Counterfeiting & Piracy Fashion Law Internet Law

Vuitton beats Google on home court

The International Herald Tribune reports: Louis Vuitton, the luxury goods manufacturer, won another round Wednesday in its court battle with the search engine Google to... Read more

Posted on January 8, 2008October 23, 2012 Fashion Law

Luxury IP’s dilemma

A new website called “BP Council” (a brand protection thing) asks, “Can Luxury Brands Counterfeiting Really Be Stopped“? [I]n their report, “The Piracy Paradox,” legal... Read more

Posted on March 30, 2007January 5, 2015 Copyright Law Fashion Law

Mock smocks spur suit

The New York Post reports that Diane von Furstenberg is suing over knockoffs of her designer smock dress things: The famed designer thinks cheapie-fashion store... Read more

Posted on September 22, 2005February 26, 2015 Fashion Law

If the Mark FITs

Wear it. Read more

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