Friedland Vining Intellectual Property Blog
Fighting Back Against Foreign Counterfeiters
Big brands win big battles this week in the ongoing war against counterfeit goods as Coach Inc. and Tory Burch LLC steamroll websites selling fake products. The iconic fashion designers separately went head to head with hundreds of domain owners allegedly infringing...
Friedland Vining Helps to Raise over $20,000 for Miami-Dade Legal Aid
Friedland Vining was proud to sponsor the Third-Annual "Patently Impossible Project," which raised over $20,000 for Miami-Dade Legal Aid. The Patently Impossible Project is a charity race to assemble a patented invention, with all proceeds benefiting Dade Legal Aid. ...
U.S. News Adds Friedland Vining to 2013 List of “Best Law Firms”
U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers have released the 2013 “Best Law Firms” rankings, providing a comprehensive view of the U.S. legal profession that is unprecedented both in the range of firms represented and in the range of qualitative and quantitative data used...
YSL Puts an End to Shoe Quarrel
Yves Saint Lauren SAS is throwing in the towel, or shoe technically speaking, and relinquishing its counterclaims against rival Christian Louboutin. After the Second Circuit held that YSL’s monochromatic red shoe did not infringe Louboutin’s trademark, only YSL’s...
Cadbury protects the Color Purple
Only a month after a United States Court of Appeals issued the emphatic opinion in Christian Louboutin S.A. v. Yves Saint Laurent America Holding, Inc., No.11-3303-cv (2d Cir. September 5, 2012) preserving a place for single colors in the world of trademarks, Europe...
2nd Circuit – A Different Color on High Fashion Trademarks
The highly anticipated ruling involving high-fashion shoe designer Christian Louboutin came yesterday from the Second Circuit. Reversing in part, the appeals court ruled that a single color could in fact serve as a trademark in the fashion industry- Louboutin’s...
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