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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The European sporting goods industry federation, Fesi, is inviting stakeholders...
The European sporting goods industry federation, Fesi, is inviting stakeholders from outside the sporting goods sector to work together to promote participation in winter sports, which is dwindling. Fesi made the proposal at its first “European Winter Summit,” which it organized on May 25 at Flanders' Bike Valley, the European ...
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New rules on customs valuation in the European Union prompted...
New rules on customs valuation in the European Union prompted the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) to organize a webinar on May 31 with Raphael Barazza, a customs lawyer who has a working agreement with the French federation of sporting goods suppliers (Fifas) and has represented Fesi, ...
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Mike Ashley, the maverick boss of Sports Direct International, continues...
Mike Ashley, the maverick boss of Sports Direct International, continues his fight with the British Parliament. The institution's Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) committee has formally summoned him to attend a hearing in Westminster on June 7 regarding SDI's treatment of employees at its Shirebrook warehouse, intimating that he may ...
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Crocs has announced that a ruling last year in the...
Crocs has announced that a ruling last year in the Shanghai Intermediate People's Court has been selected by China's Supreme People's Court as one of the top 50 leading intellectual property (IP) cases of 2015, and as one of the top 10 leading IP cases of the Shanghai Courts. In ...
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Nautilus is suing Icon Health & Fitness, charging that its...
Nautilus is suing Icon Health & Fitness, charging that its FreeStride Trainer infringes on four patents related to its own self-adjustable Variable Stride feature
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Skechers has filed a lawsuit against Eliya, the maker of...
Skechers has filed a lawsuit against Eliya, the maker of Bernie Mev footwear, for marketing and distributing footwear that allegedly infringes on its Skech-Air by Skechers product line. The suit, which has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, states that Eliya is selling ...
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Frédéric Basse has stepped down after nine years as president...
Frédéric Basse has stepped down after nine years as president at Eurosima, the association representing the board sports industry in Europe. The co-founder and former executive general manager of Rip Curl Europe chaired Eurosima's general meeting for the last time on May 27 in Anglet. The current general manager of ...
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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 ...
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Camtex Fabrics, the maker of the Cambrelle moisture-absorbing footwear lining,...
Camtex Fabrics, the maker of the Cambrelle moisture-absorbing footwear lining, has won a decision in a Chinese court against Wenzhou Superteng, a company that was accused of infringing the Cambrelle patents. After a two-year battle, the Zhejiang Province Rui-an City People's Court has found that Wenzhou Superteng infringed Article 57 ...
