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Birkenstock, which is enjoying a boom in the American shoe...
Birkenstock, which is enjoying a boom in the American shoe market, has notified Amazon that it will stop supplying it from next January. It has also asked its authorized dealers not to offer Birkenstock shoes on its marketplace. According to CNBC, Birkenstock has found it impossible to supervise the distribution ...
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The general assembly of Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry...
The general assembly of Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, decided to extend Luca Businaro's mandate as its president through to the end of 2017. Businaro is also currently the president of Fesi, the federation of the European sporting goods industry. Businaro told the assembly that the association is ...
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The highest French appeals court has upheld a decision by...
The highest French appeals court has upheld a decision by the Paris appeal court to quash an earlier arbitration ruling that awarded €404 million to Bernard Tapie, a French businessman, in relation to the sale of his majority stake in Adidas to investors around the late Robert Louis-Dreyfus in 1993. ...
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Overturning one of the rulings issued last November by a...
Overturning one of the rulings issued last November by a U.S. federal administrative law judge, the International Trade Commission ruled against an intellectual property claim lodged by Converse, saying in effect that the brand cannot protect the midsole design of its Chuck Taylor sneakers, which combines a toe cap, a ...
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Nike has filed a lawsuit against World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE),...
Nike has filed a lawsuit against World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), opposing its application for a U.S. trademark on the phrase “Just Bring It,” which would reportedly be used by WWE on various types of clothing. The phrase was made famous by a professional wrestler, Dwayne Johnson, also called “The Rock,” ...
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Alibaba has unveiled a new online system to help detect...
Alibaba has unveiled a new online system to help detect and remove fakes. The announcement was made by the company at the inaugural Rights Holders Collaboration Summit it was hosting in its hometown Hangzhou, China on July 1. The new “IP Joint-Force System” is an online platform designed to make ...
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Participants in the general meetings of Norspo AS and Sporskjedene...
Participants in the general meetings of Norspo AS and Sporskjedene AS unanimously decided that the Norwegian sporting goods organization they owned on a 50-50 basis, Sportsbransjen, will change from a private corporation to an association, funded with members' fees. Sporskjedene groups the seven major Norwegian sports retail chains. Norspo, which ...
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The House of Sport, which was established in September with...
The House of Sport, which was established in September with eleven organizations in the sport and active leisure sector, has been enlarged with the addition of another six partners. The House of Sport encompasses associations and other entities representing various facets of the sports and outdoor industry – some of ...
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The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi), the...
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi), the European Commission and several rights owners and internet platforms signed a joined memorandum of understanding to cooperate in the fight against online sales of counterfeit products. The MoU follows from a previous version signed in 2011. It was pointed out ...
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French customs authorities seized 1,200 fake Spain Euro 2016 jerseys...
French customs authorities seized 1,200 fake Spain Euro 2016 jerseys and shorts in Dunkirk, in northern France, on June 6. The fake kits were found in a truck traveling from the U.K. during an inspection at the Eurotunnel site. The driver presented the agents commercial documents on the transportation of ...
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About 7,500 pairs of counterfeit Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 shoes...
About 7,500 pairs of counterfeit Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 shoes were seized by customs at the port of Hamburg. The unbranded shoes came from China and were intended for sale online. Although they were unbranded, they violated trademark law as the design was found to be the same of that ...
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Jack Ma, the head of Alibaba, said that Chinese-made counterfeit...
Jack Ma, the head of Alibaba, said that Chinese-made counterfeit products are often of a better quality and are cheaper than the genuine articles, complicating the effort to fight counterfeiting on the country's largest e-commerce websites. The declarations, reported by Bloomberg and other media outlets, were made by the tycoon ...
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Nike has filed a lawsuit against Boris Berian, one of...
Nike has filed a lawsuit against Boris Berian, one of the fastest 800-meter runners in the U.S., to prevent him from wearing New Balance merchandise at upcoming high-profile events, which include the Olympic Trials and possibly the Olympics in August. By wearing New Balance items, Berian would allegedly be violating ...
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Nike and Head said they will stock with Maria Sharapova...
Nike and Head said they will stock with Maria Sharapova even though the blonde Russian tennis star has been suspended from competitions because of doping. Nike had initially backed out but then softened its stance. Meanwhile, Serena Williams, who has defeated Sharapova on the tennis court in recent years, finally ...
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Russian athletes appear increasingly unlikely to take part in the...
Russian athletes appear increasingly unlikely to take part in the European championships in Amsterdam in July and in the Rio Olympics in August after the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) decided unanimously at an extraordinary council meeting in Vienna last week that the Russian athletics federation had not met the conditions ...
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The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) reaffirmed...
The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) reaffirmed its partnership with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) through a memorandum of understanding inked at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne on June 2. Building on the original Code of Conduct signed in 1997, the new agreement was signed by Thomas ...
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Patrick Giraudon, owner and chief executive of Arva/Nic Impex, a...
Patrick Giraudon, owner and chief executive of Arva/Nic Impex, a leading player in the French ski touring market, has taken over from Jean-Luc Diard as president of Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), a French-based organization representing about 370 members in the outdoor industry. Giraudon, who was already on OSV's board in ...
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SnowSports Industries America (SIA) has announced that it will relocate...
SnowSports Industries America (SIA) has announced that it will relocate its headquarters office from McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, DC area, to Park City, Utah. The new location will bring the organization near Salt Lake City, into one of North America's snow sports hubs and close to like-minded organizations and ...
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Several heirs of Adi Dassler, the founder of Adidas, have...
Several heirs of Adi Dassler, the founder of Adidas, have teamed up to try and take more control of his legacy, according to Capital, the German magazine. Most of the heirs stayed away from the spotlight after the sale of Adidas in the early nineties by the four daughters of ...
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About 46,000 pairs of counterfeit Nike sports shoes were seized...
About 46,000 pairs of counterfeit Nike sports shoes were seized at the port of Hamburg a few days ago. Customs officers detected Nike sports shoes, suspecting that they may be counterfeits, next to unbranded shoes in a cleared maritime container in the port of Hamburg in mid-April. A couple of ...
