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1 month ago | 
lexology.com | Katie Vickery |Peter Rudd-Clarke |Anna Doyle Lundy |Veronica Webster Celda |Thomas Stables |Jamie Roberts
UK updates: Product Regulation and Metrology | Age verification for knife retailers | Domestic furniture fire safety | Device manufacture guide on forensic visibility | Reforms Construction product safety reforms | EU updates: EC toolbox for safe and sustainable e-commerce Product sustainability: UK updates: Deposit return scheme regulations | Digital waste tracking delayed | Simpler recycling rules | EU updates: Provisionally agreed rules on textile and food reduction | EU Competitiveness...
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1 month ago | 
lexology.com | Katie Vickery |Anna Doyle Lundy |Veronica Webster Celda
Government responds to the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee’s As reported in our October Regulatory Outlook, the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee published a report calling on the government to develop a new, long-term strategy to fix our food system which it describes as "broken".
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1 month ago | 
lexology.com | Katie Vickery |Chris Wrigley |Matthew Germain
The EU 'Omnibus' package – what does this mean for the future of ESG reporting? The European Commission has unveiled its first omnibus package, proposing significant amendments to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). This initiative aims to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses and enhance the EU's global competitiveness.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
thefashionlaw.com | Katie Vickery |Veronica Webster Celda |Charlie Hennig |Abigail Pinkerton
A group of plaintiffs has filed another amended complaint in their lawsuit against Shein, accusing the ultra-fast fashion giant of copying and selling their original designs without authorization and avoiding “blame” and liability for such “misconduct” by way of a “byzantine shell game of a corporate structure.” Aside from making claims under federal trademark and copyright law and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the plaintiffs double-down on their allegations about...
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
thefashionlaw.com | Julie Zerbo |Carly Duckett |Katie Vickery |Veronica Webster Celda
Steve Madden has filed an amended complaint in its case against Ganni, reiterating its claims that the Danish fashion brand is engaging in “anticompetitive efforts to monopolize common design features in the fashion industry.” The new complaint, in which Steve Madden sets out claims of tortious interference with business relations and libel, follows from an interesting turn of events in the burgeoning legal battle.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
thefashionlaw.com | Julie Zerbo |Carly Duckett |Vanja Nedimovic |Katie Vickery
A New York federal court has proposed a sweeping injunction following a jury trial win for the luxury goods brand in February and a subsequent bench trial over equitable remedies.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Katie Vickery |Chris Wrigley |Matthew Germain
Commission proposes 12 month delay to EU Deforestation Regulation | Where next for UK green consumer finance? | Guidelines to take effect on the use of ESG or sustainability-related terms in fund namesCommission proposes 12 month delay to EU Deforestation Regulation On 2 October, the European Commission put forward a proposal to delay the implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by 12 months.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Katie Vickery |Chris Wrigley |Matthew Germain
First reporting obligations under the Corporate
Sustainability Reporting Directive | Corporate Sustainability Due
Diligence Directive published in Official Journal | EU
Deforestation Regulation – preparing for December
2024
The first reporting requirements under the Corporate
Sustainability Reporting Directive are due in 2025.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Katie Vickery |Veronica Webster Celda |Stefanie Lo
Summer call to actionThe government announced in the King's Speech 2024 that it plans to implement restrictions on the advertising of high fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) products as well as ending the sale of high caffeine energy drinks to under 16s. In light of this, businesses should keep abreast of the impending developments and whether any consultations are published on these changes in which they can respond to.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
thefashionlaw.com | Julie Zerbo |Katie Vickery |Veronica Webster Celda |Charlie Hennig
Dupes may be more in-demand than ever. New data suggests that consumers are searching for “dupes” – a term that is being used to refer to lookalikes of hot-selling products sans brands’ well-known trademarks and counterfeits (or otherwise infringing goods), alike – with increased frequency. Reddit, for instance, recently revealed that it saw a 50 percent rise in views of dupe-focused communities – including r/fashionreps, r/reptime, r/replika, and r/designerreps, among others – from 2022 to 2023.
