Published At the end of June, the 111th edition of the Tour de France kicked off. June also saw the end of a dispute between Société du Tour de France (STF) and German fitness studio chain FitX Beteiligungs GmbH (FitX) over the well-known TOUR DE FRANCE trademarks...
Published Louis Vuitton and Pharrell Williams may have misstepped – almost literally. The company and its men’s creative director are accused of infringing the registered US trademark POCKET SOCKS in connection with (you guessed it) socks with pockets. The...
Published Fandom is a massive part of any globally-followed sports tournament, and this year’s Euros was no exception. As an expected 650,000 international football fans descended on Germany, there was an obvious rush to grab their respective nations’ kits and...
Published Every trademark attorney knows the Burger King v. Hoots case from 1968, in which the federal trademark registrant of BURGER KING – a Florida company – challenged the ‘good faith junior user’ which innocently adopted the same BURGER...
Published Our Editor-in-Chief, Faye Waterford, had the unique opportunity to attend Potter Clarkson’s residential IP Summer School, an exclusive event that took place on June 25-26 at the University of Nottingham. After a very warm welcome and humorous icebreaker...
Published In a recent landmark decision, the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf gave the green light for Nike to feature stripes on some of its sports trousers. The trademark dispute between the two sportswear giants, Nike and Adidas, began in 2022, when Adidas –...
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