All Legal articles – Page 55
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The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, which is the supreme...
The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, which is the supreme court of the Swiss Confederation, has delivered a judgment stating that schools cannot ask parents more than CHF 16 (€14-$17) per day as a contribution to the costs for compulsory excursions and snow sports camps. The judgement was issued last ...
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Mueller Sports Medicine has won a German patent case. A...
Mueller Sports Medicine has won a German patent case. A German court enjoined 100 Mile from selling its Ultimate Performance knee brace, awarding unspecified damages and attorney's fees to the American company. A similar case is still pending in the U.K.
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Macron is supporting Vicenza Calcio, the troubled Italian professional football...
Macron is supporting Vicenza Calcio, the troubled Italian professional football club based in Vicenza, Veneto, which has been placed in administration. The Macron Store in Vicenza has launched a campaign to help the team. Starting on Jan. 20, Macron said the store will donate 20 percent of every sale of ...
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The German competition authority (BKA) reports that the Bundesgerichtshof, the...
The German competition authority (BKA) reports that the Bundesgerichtshof, the Federal Court of Justice, has ruled Asics could not issue blanket bans preventing its dealers from using price comparison engines. As described by the BKA, the decision issued on Dec. 12 and published on Jan. 19 means that per se ...
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Representatives of employers and employees are at loggerheads over a...
Representatives of employers and employees are at loggerheads over a proposed increase in the minimum wage in Myanmar, one of the lowest-cost sourcing alternatives to China. Employers object that the proposed increase to $3.53 (€2.95) a day from March onwards is far too high, imposing a heavy burden that will ...
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Bernard Tapie is to face trial for embezzlement and misuse...
Bernard Tapie is to face trial for embezzlement and misuse of public funds along with five other defendants, around a decision by an arbitration committee to award him a controversial payout of €405 million in 2008, relating to the sale of Adidas. The arbitration came after a long drawn-out legal ...
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Industry associations of the bicycle sector have joined forces in...
Industry associations of the bicycle sector have joined forces in the new World Bicycle Industry Association (WBIA). This new non-profit organization was officially founded in Switzerland in December by the Bicycle Association of Japan (BAJ), the U.S. Bicycle Products Suppliers Association (BPSA), the Confederation of the European Bicycle Industry (Conebi) ...
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Brooks Sports has appealed against a ruling by the U.S....
Brooks Sports has appealed against a ruling by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which dismissed the running specialist's opposition to the registration of an Anta logo. Brooks filed its opposition on the grounds of potential confusion and dilution, in relation with its registered path and Heritage chevron marks. ...
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The European Commission is gradually increasing funding of sports-related projects...
The European Commission is gradually increasing funding of sports-related projects through its Erasmus+ program, which started in 2014. It has set aside a budget of around €50 million to fund about 200 projects in 2018, building up gradually to 300 projects for €70 million in 2020. That would compare with ...
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Chris Clawson, former president of Life Fitness, has been re-elected...
Chris Clawson, former president of Life Fitness, has been re-elected as chairman of the U.S. Sports & Fitnes Industry Association (SFIA)
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The European Fishing Tackle Trade Association (EFTTA) has announced that...
The European Fishing Tackle Trade Association (EFTTA) has announced that Jean-Claude Bel is stepping back from his role as chief executive of the association but is not retiring. He has asked EFTTA's board to allow him step back into a part-time job. Bel, who has been at the helm of ...
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Adidas has reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with M Design...
Adidas has reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with M Design & Manufacturing, one of Forever 21's suppliers, in a trademark case claiming that Forever 21, a Los-Angeles based fast-fashion retailer, had violated trademark law by using Adidas' three-stripe mark. The terms of the settlement were not immediately disclosed. The lawsuit, ...
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Eight people were indicted by a New York grand jury...
Eight people were indicted by a New York grand jury earlier this month in connection with the scandal that erupted around U.S. college basketball. They include Jim Gatto, an Adidas executive who was in charge of sports marketing for basketball, along with four assistant basketball coaches, an agent, an Adidas ...
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Canada Goose's new flagship in London was hit by burglars...
Canada Goose's new flagship in London was hit by burglars on Nov. 14, just days after its opening. According to reports, a ten-people gang used scooters to smash into the store's glass door. The thieves threatened a night security guard with a hammer and then managed to run away with ...
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British Rowing and British Triathlon have announced a partnership to...
British Rowing and British Triathlon have announced a partnership to cross-promote and align their activities on the integration of British Rowing's Go Row Indoor within British Triathlon's Go Tri Gym Challenge product. The new partnership is meant to help both governing bodies increase their respective number of participants. British Rowing ...
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AFL-CIO, the American labor union, has asked Nike to disclose...
AFL-CIO, the American labor union, has asked Nike to disclose a formal set of tax principles to which it is committed following the disclosures in the Paradise Papers of the tax loopholes used by the company and other multi-nationals (see our previous issue). AFL-CIO, which is also a shareholder in ...
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Kasper Rorsted, chief executive at the Adidas Group, was quoted...
Kasper Rorsted, chief executive at the Adidas Group, was quoted as saying in Bild am Sonntag during the weekend that the company would have a problem if one of its partners was found guilty of breaking the law. The quote was placed in the context of the Adidas group's partnership ...
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Puma, which was recently accused of damaging a 17th-century building...
Puma, which was recently accused of damaging a 17th-century building in Delhi with the painting for a shoe commercial, will restore the site to its original aspect. According to reports by FashionNetwork.com, the German sportswear brand has directed the agency responsible for causing the damage to restore the building to ...
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a request...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a request by Adidas to declare Nike's Flyknit patents unprotectable. The Big a argued that a person of ordinary skill in knitting would have been able to combined prior patents with generally known textbook writing on knitting to develop the Flyknit. While ...
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Lululemon and Under Armour have settled a legal dispute relating...
Lululemon and Under Armour have settled a legal dispute relating to patents on their sports bras, each agreeing to pay their own legal expenses
