Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer

Earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of Marc Jacobs and its retailers, refusing to grant summary judgment to Korean luxury skin-care ...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2024/09/northern-district-of-california-wipes-away-eyeconic-eye-conic-trademark-litigation/

Last month, Senators Christopher Coons (D-Del.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), introduced a resolution designating July as “National Anti-Counterfeiting and Consumer Education and Awareness Month...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2024/07/keepin-it-real-its-national-anti-counterfeiting-month/

Considering Use in Commerce, Source-Identifying-Function, and Conduct vs. Confusion On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court vacated the 10thCircuit’s decision in Abitron Austria GmbH et al. v. Het...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2023/08/the-unanimous-but-contentiously-fractured-supreme-court-decision-on-extraterritoriality-of-the-lanham-act/

It seems most everyone has been closely monitoring Taco Bell’s cancellation proceedings directed to federal trademark registrations covering the TACO TUESDAY trademark.  On July 15, 2023, one ...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2023/07/something-to-taco-bout-taco-bell-takes-on-taco-tuesday-trademark-registrations/

Ever since the public launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the world has been gasping at the astonishing accomplishments of this generative AI chatbot:  a simple “prompt” in the form of a question ...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2023/06/ai-powered-chatbots-mythical-super-creature-or-legal-trojan-horse/

While fashion lovers throughout the European Union will surely be familiar with the pattern, the General Court held that luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton failed to demonstrate that its trademar...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2023/05/if-louis-vuitton-cannot-prove-acquired-distinctiveness-can-you-checking-in-after-the-louis-vuitton-damier-azur-case/

The global fashion marketplace is experiencing unprecedented digital transformation with the emergence of the metaverse and NFTs. Given implementation is still in its early stages, fashion brands...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2023/02/a-victory-for-hermes-in-the-bag-how-the-metabirkins-verdict-may-pave-the-landscape-for-the-future-of-fashion-and-the-metaverse/

Summary: In a recent “Law.com” article titled “Too Big to Succeed: Lessons from the Ye / Adidas Brand Partnership,” Crowell attorneys discuss the unraveling of Ye (Kanye) West’s brand p...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2022/12/what-brands-can-learn-from-the-termination-of-yes-brand-partnerships/

I. Introduction In recent news it was reported that Ikea, a globally well-known furniture company, sent a cease and desist letter to the gaming studio Ziggy following the announced release by the...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2022/12/ikeas-battle-against-horror-games-the-importance-of-intellectual-property-rights/

In the past several years, the market for counterfeit goods has grown rampantly. Estimates of the total value of counterfeit goods sold each year range from $1.7 trillion to $4.5 trillion. Make...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2022/12/anti-counterfeit-measures-help-brands-protect-against-the-trafficking-of-fake-products/