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The IOC approves Olympic Agenda 2020+5
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session on March 12 unanimously approved Olympic Agenda 2020+5, the new strategic roadmap for the Olympic Movement and the Olympic Organization through to 2025. Building on the achievements of Olympic Agenda 2020, the new roadmap identifies five key trends: solidarity, digitalization, sustainability, credibility, and economic ...
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Golf courses and outdoor sports facilities are re-opening in the U.K.
The Welsh government has announced that golf courses and outdoor sports facilities are allowed to reopen from March 13 following the latest easing of lockdown measures in Wales. Outdoor sports facilities – including outdoor gyms, tennis courts and basketball courts – will be allowed to welcome visitors back as of ...
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Thomas Bach has been re-elected IOC president
Thomas Bach has been re-elected for an additional four-year term as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the 137th Session of the IOC, which was held virtually on March 10. The 67-year-old former fencer and Olympic champion received 93 yes votes out of the 94 valid votes. Bach ...
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Tokyo 2020 will likely go ahead without foreign spectators
The Japanese government has reportedly decided to prevent overseas spectators from attending the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics this summer over concerns for the spread of coronavirus and its variants. A formal decision on this matter will be made by the end of this month, and the number of spectators to ...
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Court upholds one of Cocona’s patents, overruling TNF’s appeal
In a lawsuit first filed in 2017 by Cocona Labs against The North Face (TNF) and Columbia Sportswear, a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed on March 4 the validity of key claims of one of Cocona’s patents on its 2.5L waterproof/breathable laminate technology. Registered on Feb. ...
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European Fishing Tackle Trade Association to move HQ to Brussels
The European Fishing Tackle Trade Association (EFTTA) is planning to move its headquarters from London to Brussels later this year. According to a report in Angling International, the move is set to be completed in September. The decision is consistent with the activity of the organization, which conducts lobbying in ...
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Tokyo 2020 adds 12 women to executive board to promote gender equality
Tokyo 2020 has appointed 12 women to its executive board, bringing the total number of women in the organizing committee’s board to 19, namely 42 percent of the total. The move follows the recent sexism scandal that led to the resignation of the former president of the committee, Yoshiro Mori, ...
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Further development of the FEDAS Key
SGI-DHO, the European organization that stands for the Sporting Goods Data Harmonization Organization is focusing on the further development of the FEDAS Key, for which it is responsible, in the “training/fitness” and “travel/outdoor equipment” categories. It has already adjusted the bike category and developed a new classification for “virus protection ...
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Russia may curtail counterfeiting within 12 months, Unichel feels
The mandatory tagging of footwear, coupled with increased controls in the Russian market, could curb the share of counterfeit shoes sold in the country, said Vladimir Denisenko, the head of Russia’s main footwear producer Unichel. Denisenko was initially critical about the tagging project when it was launched by the Russian ...
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Italian mountain areas call for a dedicated ministry
Italy’s Unione Nazionale Comuni Comunità Enti Montani (Uncem), the national organization of mountain municipalities, is calling for the creation of a new post of minister or undersecretary for mountain areas – “Ministero alla Montagna e alle Aree Interne” (Minister for the Mountains and Internal Areas), it suggested. The new government ...
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Crocs may have won the battle for its clog’s patent
A panel of three judges in a U.S. Federal Circuit court confirmed a previous verdict by the Trademark and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) that validated Crocs’ core patent (N° D517,789) on its clogs. The board had responded to an appeal made by a successor ...
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Peloton wants Mad Dogg’s Spinning trademarks cancelled
Complaining that Mad Dogg Athletics has been “abusively enforcing” the trademarks it registered in the U.S. for Spin and Spinning, Peloton has asked the Trademark and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) to cancel them. Peloton argues that the terms are generic and complains that Mad ...
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Frasers takes a hit with English retail lockdown due to end on Apr. 12
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that non-essential retail stores may reopen in England on April 12 after having been closed since Jan. 4 to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Indoor leisure facilities such as gyms are also due to reopen on that date. Like in other countries, ...
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Tokyo 2020 appoints new female president
Seiko Hashimoto, a former Japanese minister and seven-time Olympian, has been appointed as the new president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games organizing committee. She replaces the 83-year-old former president, Yoshiro Mori, who quit earlier this month after causing a firestorm of critiques internationally for comments on female ...
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Italy blocks the reopening of ski lifts
Ski resorts were supposed to reopen in Italy on Monday, Feb. 15, but the Italian Health Minister, Roberto Speranza, abruptly signed a decree on Sunday, extending the ban on recreational ski resorts until at least March 5, in connection with the spread of the British variant of the coronavirus across ...
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Council of Europe adopts two resolutions on sports
The 16th Conference of Ministers responsible for Sport of the Council of Europe has adopted two resolutions. The first one, titled “A European approach to sport policies: the revision of the European Sports Charter,” is meant to “facilitate access to sports for all layers of society,” largely through investments in ...
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Another legal victory for the Moon Boot
Tecnica Group has won a second court verdict in Italy to protect the intellectual property rights behind its Moon Boot, and it is now planning to carry the fight to other countries as well, starting with Germany and Italy. The Milan Tribunal ruled on Jan. 25 that the unique design ...
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New Balance wins a $3.9m lawsuit against a Chinese copycat
New Balance has won another trademark lawsuit in China against New Barlun, a footwear maker based in Fujian, and its distributor Shanghai Shiyi Trade. The Shanghai Huangpu District Court awarded New Balance 25 million renmimbi (€3.2m-$3.9m) in damages on Jan. 5. According to the Financial Times, it is one of ...
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Mandatory shoe tagging doesn’t prevent counterfeiting in Russia
Russian law enforcement agencies have discovered a big store that had been selling fake sports shoes under the guise of famous brands for almost one year in a shopping center in the central Nevsky district of St. Petersburg. It was estimated that the store caused the rights holders damages close ...
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Fibit and Garmin win an IP round against Philips
An administrative law judge of the International Trade Commission of the U.S. issued an initial determination that clears Garmin and Fitbit of a charge that they have been infringing on patents held by Koninklijke Philips and its North American subsidiary. In December 2019, the Dutch electronics multinational had brought a ...
