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Old Navy has responded to Kim Kardashian’s lawsuit, filed last summer, alleging that The Gap-owned retailer used a Kardashian look-a-like — a “Fauxdashian” as racked.com has dubbed model Melissa Molinaro — in its commercials. Old Navy’s retort? “What are you really worth these days?”

Swatch Group’s bid to slacken the deliveries of mechanical movements and their components to rival watchmakers. was granted by A Swiss court on December 19, 20011. Nine companies, including luxury watch brands Frédérique Constant and Raymond Weil, in addition to movement manufacturer Sellita unsuccessfully appealed in the Federal Administrative Court in Bern against a ruling by Switzerland’s competition regulator in June that authorizes Swatch Group, the world’s largest watchmaker, to reduce its supply of parts in 2012.   Read More

Dec. 20, 2011 The Tommy Hilfiger Group, which is wholly owned by PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH), announced an agreement with Ittierre S.p.A to license the men’s and women’s runway collections beginning Fall 2012 and pre-collections Spring 2013. While Tommy Hilfiger retains creative control over all collections, Ittierre will have the rights to produce and distribute apparel and the majority of accessories, with distribution concentrated in Europe, North America and Asia.

The Rolex Deli

Sara Alexandre

Would you ever mistake a turkey club sandwich for a Rolex watch? Luxury watch brand Rolex doesn’t want to take the chance that you will. Rolex Deli, a café located in Brooklyn, New York, is now facing a trademark infringement lawsuit filed in Manhattan by Rolex, who claims the deli’s name gives the “false impression that defendants and their services and goods are in some way affiliated with Rolex”. Rolex claims the deli’s owner Shawqu Ali has purposefully chosen the name to confuse passers-by, and that the deli threatens to “dilute the distinctiveness of the Rolex trademark.”..Read More

Buccellati v. Buccellati

Sara Alexandre

It doesn’t take much energy to peel off names of entertainers or entrepreneurs who share the last names of other famous and/or successful relatives. And, so what if they used the connection as a springboard? Isn’t it the right of any one of us to use our own name? Well, not if you are Laura Buccellati. The grandniece of Mario Buccellati, the company founder of Bucellati, the upscale jewelry and watch maker, is facing a trademark infringement lawsuit on December 23, brought by the company. Claiming trademark dilution, false designation of origin, unfair competition and unfair deceptive trade practices, the plaintiff is seeking injunctive relief, damages, attorney’s fees and investigatory costs.  Read More

According to Monday’s WWD “Runway to Win” is upon us.  As the race for president is beginning to heat up, long time Obama supporters have joined forces to raise funds for the President’s reelection efforts.  The initiative has been called “Runway to Win” will include 22 designers including Marc Jacobs, Tory Burch, Diane von Furstenberg, Narcisoco Rodriguez, Jason Wu, Alexander Wang, Joseph Altuzarra, Rag & Bone, Rachel Roy and Tracey Reece.  The designers will sell products such as t-shirts, tote bags, scarves and wristlets on the e-commerce site runwaytowin.com.  The website will be launched on Thursday.  This initiative was assembled by the efforts of Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour, who has been a long time supporter of President Obama, and the Democratic Party.

Another Victory for the Bratz Doll Collection

Sara Alexandre

Bernard Belair, Brooklyn artist and photographer, has a had knack for creating “physically distorted women”, Boing Boing reports, and in the late 90s he registered his design which became popular with the Steve Maddan brand as an advertisement in Seventeen Magazine.  That particular ad went on to inspire Margaret Leahy, a sculptor, used that advertisement as the basis for the beginning of Bratz dolls, a line of dolls with exaggerated features and proportions that are marketed to girls between the ages of 4-8.  Read More

The British Advertising Standards Authority has continuously expressed their dislike for Photoshopped pictures by banning any ad that appears “overly perfected and unrealistic.” Some of the blocked images include a Lancome ad featuring Julia Roberts and a Maybelline ad featuring Christy Turlington. The United States has not taken any similar action, however, the National Advertising Division (NAD) is hoping to completely get rid of all Photoshoppped ads.

In China “iPad” Doesn’t Belong to Apple

Sara Alexandre

It’s hard to believe that any product name starting with an “i” would belong to any company besides Apple.   Everyone got it and it was cool, itunes, iPod, icloud….  So when iPad came out, yes, although the name was a little quirky and took some getting used to, it was definitely Apple…except, not in China. Apparently, a little bird must have told Purview Technology about the enormous potential attaching an “i” to a word would have, and in 2000, Proview Technology obtained the Chinese rights to the iPad trademark.   Read More

This year, there have been many copying claims. First, there was a claim from Botkier against Kim Kardashian. Then, there was an uproar when Alexis Bittar claimed Kim Kardashian copied his jewelry. Now, Derek Lam is accusing Ivanka Trump of copying his shoe design.