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The new Adidas-Allbirds collaboration comes only in white. The dyeing process can be harmful to the environment, so the companies decided to skip it. Running has a relatively low carbon footprint when compared to other sports.Running does not necessitate tearing up grasslands to construct a court or burning gasoline to travel to a distant lake.Also, […]
Small businesses violate trademark laws with deceptively similar brand names which not only confuses consumers, but also leads to production of fake goods resulting in huge losses to corporates Brands must not only innovate continually to remain relevant and dynamic, but they must also prevent attempts by smaller businesses to use their equity and goodwill as […]
Moderna has been embattled in a patent lawsuit over its COVID vaccine for some time. However, the story took a new twist on May 6, 2022, when the company tried shifting potential liability to the U.S. government. While Moderna claims the vaccine lawsuit is without merit — saying no patent infringement occurred — they also say […]
NFTs would only be able to gain copyright protection when looked at as a whole, making the digital asset and the NFT a single unit. NFT or “Non-Fungible Token”, is essentially composed of metadata that makes it a non-interchangeable unit of data and a cryptographic tool. NFTs are generally stored on a blockchain, which is, […]
Digital payment platform Wirex has secured a win over its ‘Cryptoback’ bitcoin rewards scheme, after the UK Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) ruled that a rival had infringed its trademark. The decision was handed down on Tuesday, March 16, following a trial at the High Court in January. London-based Wirex accused Cryptocarbon Global (Global), Cryptocarbon UK and Bee-One of infringing its ‘Cryptoback’ trademark in September 2019. […]
While people are becoming more aware of copyright infringements and their consequences, the entertainment and advertising industries in the South Asian regions still seem to have a lot to learn. It’s not even been a year since Bilal Saeed and Momina Mustehsan released their hit song, ‘Baari’ and it was simply swindled off by Pakistan’s famous clothing […]
Hotsuit, a sportswear company focused on weight loss and sauna suits, has copied Under Armour’s logo, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday, October 8. Athletics company Under Armour accused Hotsuit of selling apparel under a “copycat” mark, in a claim filed at the US District Court for the District of Maryland. According to the suit, Hotsuit’s use […]
According to Bloomberg Law, METALLICA has won a legal battle with Chilean businessman Horacio Mardones over the graphically and phonetically identical trademark for clothing and footwear registered by him 20 years ago. Chile’s Supreme Court honored the group’s request to annul Mardones’s trademark. The band in 2012 lost an attempt to oppose Mardones’s registration of […]
