Adidas wins a round in knit patent fight

2014-12-05T00:00:00

Adidas has won at least the first round of its battle against Nike on the issue of labor-saving knitting technologies for footwear uppers. The Federal Patent Court in Munich has ruled that the European patent filed by the Swoosh on knitting technology for footwear uppers used in its Flyknit range ...

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