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Sports Direct has launched a legal claim in Iceland against...
Sports Direct has launched a legal claim in Iceland against Ingibjorg Palmadottir and Sigurdur Palmi Sigurbjornsson, the wife and stepson of Jon Asgeir Johannesson, the disgraced former boss of Baugur. The British sportswear retailer led by Mike Ashley is suing Sigurbjornsson and two companies, Guru Invest and Rhapsody Investments, linked ...
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Following other American business leaders, Kevin Plank, founder and chief...
Following other American business leaders, Kevin Plank, founder and chief executive of Under Armour, resigned from Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council after the U.S. president failed to criticize an outburst of white suprematist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia in mid-August. Plank had been initially an enthusiastic supporter of Trump because of ...
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Ping Europe has been fined £1.45 million (€1.7m-$1.9m) by the...
Ping Europe has been fined £1.45 million (€1.7m-$1.9m) by the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for preventing two British retailers from selling its golf clubs on their websites. The CMA has required Ping to stop the ban and to avoid any equivalent ban on other retailers. According to the ...
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Active Brands has announced its continued commitment to Johaug, its...
Active Brands has announced its continued commitment to Johaug, its women's sportswear brand, in spite of an 18-month suspension competition decreed for Therese Johaug, the Norwegian cross-country skiing star who the brand is named after. She was recently banned from competition by a judge following a doping charge, but the ...
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Heiner Oberrauch, president of the Oberalp Group, has been awarded...
Heiner Oberrauch, president of the Oberalp Group, has been awarded one of the highest honors by the Austrian government. Wolfgang Spadinger, consul general of Austria in Bolzano, pinned the Great Order of Merit to Oberrauch's jacket at the end of August in a ceremony held in the city, where the ...
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A district court judge in Oregon has let a lawsuit...
A district court judge in Oregon has let a lawsuit by Adidas against Skechers over its Stan Smith shoe go to trial, denying a request by Skechers to overrule the claims. He has accepted most of the claims, though not all of them. In the case, Adidas sued Skechers in ...
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A Chinese court has ruled that Under Armour is owed...
A Chinese court has ruled that Under Armour is owed 2 million yuan renminbi (€0.26m-$0.30m) in damages by the Chinese company that has been selling the Uncle Martian brand with a logo uncannily similar to Under Armour's, according to the U.S. group's lawyers. Uncle Martian was launched last year by ...
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Changing its management structure, Fedas, the European sports retailers' federation,...
Changing its management structure, Fedas, the European sports retailers' federation, now has two presidents. Michael Nendwich, who became managing director of the Austrian sporting goods industry federation (VSSÖ) in 2008, joins Werner Haizmann, who has held the post for 21 years and continues to run the German sports retailers' federation ...
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Lululemon Athletica has reportedly sued Under Armour in a Delaware...
Lululemon Athletica has reportedly sued Under Armour in a Delaware court, alleging that it has infringed on the four-strap design of its best-selling Energy Bra, offering the items for sale at lower prices. It is seeking damages and an injunction on the sale of the allegedly infringing items: the Armour ...
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Fesi welcomes Japan Free Trade Agreement
Leaders of the European Union and Japan signed a deal in principle on July 6 for a free trade agreement (FTA) that would create the world's largest economic zone, representing about 30 percent of the world's GDP and 40 percent of world trade.The European federation of the sporting goods industry, ...
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Puma says it has withdrawn its request for a preliminary...
Puma says it has withdrawn its request for a preliminary injunction against the Adidas Group at the regional court of Braunschweig. The case related to the Stan Smith Boost by Adidas. Puma alleged that it infringed on one of its registered European designs, focusing on the midsole. Last week, the ...
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Puma has reached an out-of-court settlement with Urwyler & Hostettler,...
Puma has reached an out-of-court settlement with Urwyler & Hostettler, a supplier of furniture and wooden household items in Switzerland that adopted a logo with a leaping animal. The company, which sells the Made in Ermatingen brand, filed an application to register the logo for sports footwear, sports apparel and ...
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As previously reported, a district court in California recently rejected...
As previously reported, a district court in California recently rejected a trademark infringement claim by Puma against Forever 21 because of insufficient evidence of irreparable harm. Skechers has now won a round against Adidas in a court in Portland, where the judge similarly felt that the Big a was not ...
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The organizers of Art Basel, an arts exhibition held in...
The organizers of Art Basel, an arts exhibition held in Basel, Miami and Hong Kong, have reportedly filed a lawsuit against the Adidas Group due to its allegedly unauthorized use of the Art Basel name on a limited edition of Adidas EQT shoes on the occasion of Art Basel in ...
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Bernard Tapie, the former majority shareholder of Adidas, has lost...
Bernard Tapie, the former majority shareholder of Adidas, has lost a final appeal in French courts against a ruling that he should reimburse €404 million paid out to him after arbitration proceedings around the sale of the sports company in 1993. Tapie has long alleged that he was fleeced by ...
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Garmin International has announced that it has won its patent...
Garmin International has announced that it has won its patent dispute with Navico as the previous rulings in the dispute have been reversed by a Federal Court in the U.S. In December 2015, the International Trade Commission (ITC) found that Garmin had infringed patents related to Navico's sonars. The U.S. ...
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Three industry executives have been elected as joint presidents of...
Three industry executives have been elected as joint presidents of BSI, the German sporting goods industry federation, taking the place of Désirée Derin-Holzapfel, who resigned from the post last January. The trio consists of three board members - Monique van Dooren-Westerdaal, chief executive of Euro-star Reitmoden ; Karl-Josef Sedlmeyer, vice president ...
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The Marker Dalbello Völkl (MDV) group says it has reached...
The Marker Dalbello Völkl (MDV) group says it has reached a settlement with Head/Tyrolia in a patent and utility model dispute regarding their ski bindings, after a four-year controversy. MDV said the dispute focused on whether the ski bindings produced by Tyrolia and used in its Attack and Adrenalin ranges ...
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Forever 21, the fast-fashion retailer, is opposing a demand by...
Forever 21, the fast-fashion retailer, is opposing a demand by Puma for a preliminary injunction, asking a U.S. court to dismiss the Wild Cat's argument that it is infringing on the designs of the Creeper, Fur Slide and Bow Slide models. According to Forever 21, the designs “are commonplace and ...
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An administrative judge of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)...
An administrative judge of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) recommended a $37 million fine against Garmin, charging that certain DownVii sonar products marketed by the company violate a determination made in favor of Navico by the ITC in December 2015, following a previous investigation. Garmin disagrees and says it ...
