Fashion IP – LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

It’s Abboud time!

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2013-09-28 21:24:25. Republished by Blog Post PromoterA year and a half ago I reported on designer Joseph Abboud’s attempt to sell his trademark […]

Fashion Law

Mad Abboud you

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2008-06-11 00:01:09. Republished by Blog Post PromoterOuch! The Wall Street Journal reports: A federal judge ruled that menswear designer Joseph Abboud, who sold […]

Fashion Law, Trademarks and trademark law

Goodbye, dolly

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2012-12-27 15:00:28. Republished by Blog Post PromoterPamela Chestek reports on the dizzying fallout of the Bratz litigation.

To die for!

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-11-26 12:58:02. Republished by Blog Post Promoter My own moments of snark notwithstanding–no, you don’t even get a link; if you missed it, […]

Fashion Law

Couture in Court

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

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

Costumes and Clothing, Fashion Law

How Supreme Skateboard plays the edge

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2010-06-01 08:35:04. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe new Case Clothesed blog out of New York Law School has a very interesting, if lightly sourced, […]

Counterfeiting & Piracy, Fashion Law, Trademarks and trademark law

IDPPPA ok?

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2012-11-22 19:51:47. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThat’s the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, back up for another shot at the big […]

Fashion Law

Decline and Fall

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2009-12-03 23:27:21. Republished by Blog Post PromoterCounterfeit Chic reports on yet another indignity visited on the famous girl singer who is presently popular […]

Brand Management and Branding, Fashion Law

The sincerest form of flattery

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-03-14 10:40:57. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSusan Scafidi seems genuinely shocked — no, I mean, genuinely! — over this comment by Ralph Lauren: When […]

Fashion Law

Best of 2010: Foul ball?

Posted on November 15, 2018 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2010-12-22 14:30:26. Republished by Blog Post PromoterFirst published on March 2, 2010. Louis Vuitton Malletier and its lawyers demonstrate how to make sure […]

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

COICA: Big IP supersizes it

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2010-11-15 11:47:00. Republished by Blog Post PromoterEverything I’ve written about here for the last five years, or just about everything, is about to […]

Fashion Law, IP Institutions, Politics

A beauty, a doll

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2008-07-25 14:49:01. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe WSJ Law Blog reports: A federal jury in Riverside, Calif., determined Thursday that MGA Entertainment’s hugely […]

An emphatic NO!

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-09-08 18:10:23. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Chatty Kathy: German designer Wolfgang Joop’s bid to have a punctuation mark trademarked [sic] for his […]

Fashion Law