Fashion IP – LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

Couture in Court

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Fabulous filings for fashionistas — and those who just want to look like them! Originally posted 2012-02-29 23:27:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Costumes and Clothing, Fashion Law

Mad Abboud you

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Ouch! The Wall Street Journal reports: A federal judge ruled that menswear designer Joseph Abboud, who sold his trademark and later left the company that […]

Fashion Law, Trademarks and trademark law

How Supreme Skateboard plays the edge

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

The new Case Clothesed blog out of New York Law School has a very interesting, if lightly sourced, piece about how Supreme Skateboard has managed for […]

Counterfeiting & Piracy, Fashion Law, Trademarks and trademark law

IDPPPA ok?

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Ron Coleman

That’s the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, back up for another shot at the big leagues. We need more laws right? And just […]

Fashion Law

Decline and Fall

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Counterfeit Chic reports on yet another indignity visited on the famous girl singer who is presently popular culture’s most pathetic public death spiral: a European […]

Brand Management and Branding, Fashion Law

The sincerest form of flattery

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Susan Scafidi seems genuinely shocked — no, I mean, genuinely! — over this comment by Ralph Lauren: When the New York Times‘ Eric Wilson listened to Oprah […]

Fashion Law

Best of 2010: Foul ball?

Posted on November 15, 2018 by Ron Coleman

First published on March 2, 2010. Louis Vuitton Malletier and its lawyers demonstrate how to make sure a few seconds of what they say is […]

Brand Management and Branding, Fashion Law, Trademarks and trademark law

COICA: Big IP supersizes it

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Ron Coleman

Everything I’ve written about here for the last five years, or just about everything, is about to get a lot worse, explains David Post: Congress […]

Fashion Law, IP Institutions, Politics

A beauty, a doll

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Ron Coleman

The WSJ Law Blog reports: A federal jury in Riverside, Calif., determined Thursday that MGA Entertainment’s hugely popular Bratz dolls (pictured left) were designed while […]

An emphatic NO!

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Ron Coleman

Chatty Kathy: German designer Wolfgang Joop’s bid to have a punctuation mark trademarked [sic] for his Joop! clothing and perfume company has been denied by […]

Fashion Law

Gucci v. Frontline Processing: Giving credit for infringement where it’s due

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Jane Coleman

The essential role played by credit card companies in online trademark infringement was recognized in Gucci America, Inc. v. Frontline Processing Corp. In that case, […]

Secondary Liability

Bratz, foiled again!

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Ron Coleman

First, December’s 15, 2009’s story: Remember the Bratz dolls case, and the phenomenal legal fees application that followed? It’s back! The Ninth Circuit Court […]

Brand Management and Branding, Copyright Law

Knock, knock!

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Knock, knock! Who’s there! Your knockoff! I knockoff who? You knockoff yourself! No, don’t worry — it’s not so bad that LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® is […]

Fashion Law