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Fashion

Fross Zelnick knows fashion. In an industry flooded with trademarks in Class 25 – the category for clothing – it takes lawyers with deep experience to secure the registrations that define success and profitability. From GAP, Ann Taylor, Bonobos and Louis Vuitton to Escada, Gucci and two-person haute couture houses, our lawyers have searched, registered, managed and defended trademarks for the best names in fashion.

Our knowledge of fashion trademarks is so extensive that our fashion clients look to us for benchmarking advice – to understand when to seek registration for sub-brand names, style names, seasonal slogans and the like. They know that we can advise them on strategies to protect marks for both goods and services, for high-end merchandise as well as low end, and how to protect products sold online as well as through bricks-and-mortar establishments. We have broad experience securing marks internationally, managing international portfolios of fashion marks, knowing when trademark protection is advisable or required for exporting products, and protecting our clients from the risk and damage of counterfeit merchandise reaching the market.

Strengths that Matter to our Clients

With an overabundance of marks in the fashion sector, finding ways to secure and protect new trademarks requires exceptional creativity. We work with clients to devise successful strategies to protect:

  • Apparel
  • Shoes
  • Watches
  • Athletic wear
  • Ath-leisure wear
  • Formal wear
  • Online sales and marketing of fashion merchandise

Decisions

  • Old Navy (Apparel), LLC v. Blissman

    December 14, 2019

    Opp. No. 91234507 (T.T.A.B.)

    On behalf of client Old Navy (Apparel), LLC, we successfully opposed an application to register the mark OLD IVY for clothing before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (the “TTAB”) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The TTAB found that OLD IVY was confusingly similar to our client’s OLD NAVY mark,More

  • Garan Inc. & Garan Services Corp. v. Manimal, LLC

    February 13, 2020

    Opp. No. 91232774 (T.T.A.B.)

    On behalf of client Manimal, LLC, we successfully defended an opposition brought by the owner of the GARANIMALS trademark for apparel against our client’s application to register MANIMAL, also for apparel.More

  • Jack Wolfskin Ausrustung Fur Draussen GmbH & Co. KGAA v. New Millennium Sports, S.L.U.

    January 1, 2016

    797 F.3d 1363 (Fed. Cir. 2015), cert. denied, 136 S.Ct. 982 (2016)

    On behalf of our client Jack Wolfskin Ausrustung Fur Draussen GmbH, we obtained a reversal of a decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.More

  • Hoop Culture, Inc. v. The Gap, Inc.

    January 1, 2015

    122 F. Supp. 3d 1338 (M.D. Fla. 2015), aff’d, 684 Fed.Appx. 981 (11th Cir. 2016)

    Following an evidentiary hearing, on behalf of client The Gap, Inc. and its Old Navy brand, the Firm was successful in defeating a motion for a preliminary injunction brought by plaintiff Hoop Culture,More

  • Body Wisdom Media, Inc. v. Athleta, Inc.

    January 30, 2014

    8:13-cv-02967-GJH (D. Md. Jan. 30, 2014)

    The Firm successfully defeated a motion for a preliminary injunction motion on behalf of client Athleta, Inc., a leading retailer of women’s performance apparel and gear and part of The Gap, Inc.’s portfolio of companies. Plaintiff Body Wisdom Media,More

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Representative Experience

  • Clients include Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Athleta, Intermix, Gucci, The Children's Place, Stella McCartney, Lacoste, Jack Wolfskin and more.
  • Regularly handle trademark portfolio management and enforcement for major apparel brands.
  • Defend countless copyright and trademark infringement claims on behalf of apparel clients.
  • Investigate, clear and register clothing trademarks throughout the world.

Newsroom

  • Fross Zelnick Wins Rare Descriptiveness Reversal at TTAB

    March 29, 2019

    Fross Zelnick partner Charles Weigell and associate Julia Belagorudsky convinced the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) to reverse the decision of a trademark examining attorney and rule that our client, Stella McCartney,More

  • European Union: Christian Louboutin’s “Red Sole Mark” Overcomes Challenges

    December 19, 2015

    Roland SE v. Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) (Case T-631/14, July16, 2015)

    Christian Louboutin’s (“Louboutin”) CTM trademark application for its signature red sole mark (shown below) has successfully overcome all of the oppositions that were blocking its path to registration. More

  • Chile: After Winning Milestone Criminal Trial in Chile, Michael Kors Seeks Two Million Dollar Compensation for Trademark Piracy

    September 23, 2015

    Global luxury lifestyle brand MICHAEL KORS recently secured one of the first criminal convictions for trademark infringement under the new Chilean trademark law, in a case heralded by IP specialists as one of the most important convictions in recent time. The criminal conviction followed a successful administrative proceeding during which the Chilean Trademark Office cancelled the improper trademark registration for a MICHAEL KORS trademark by one of the defendants’ companies,More

  • South Korea: Famous Handbag Designs Protected Under Expanded Unfair Competition

    June 23, 2015

    Hermès International v. Suwa United Co., Ltd., Seoul Central District Court [Dist. Ct.], 2014

    In a case involving French luxury brand Hermès International (“Hermès”) against Korean importer Suwa United Co., Ltd. (“Suwa”), the Seoul Central District Court ruled on January 29,More

  • David Donahue Participates on NYCBA Panel

    June 24, 2019

    David Donahue spoke about the impact of recent litigation on the fashion industry at last week’s New York City Bar Association program “The Fashion Law Lookbook: Trends and Mixed Patterns Impacting the Fashion Industry.“More

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