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2 months 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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2 months 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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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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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.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
thefashionlaw.com | Julie Zerbo |Aaron West |Katie Vickery |Veronica Webster Celda
The stripes-focused battle between adidas and Aviator Nation continues, with the California-based apparel upstart raising new arguments and counterclaims in its answer to the trademark infringement complaint waged against it by the German sportswear giant. And while the underlying conflict touches on various matters of contract and trademark law, the heart of the issue revolves around the companies’ respective uses of stripes.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | A New |Katie Vickery |Veronica Webster Celda |Stefanie Lo
The two parties vying to form the next government after the UK
general election on 4 July 2024, the Labour and Conservative parties, have set out commitments
they will seek to impose in regards to food.
Labour, which is current favourite to win, proposes to prohibit
the advertising of high fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) products to
children as well as banning the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks
to those under 16.
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May 31, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Katie Vickery |Veronica Webster Celda |Stefanie Lo
What the general election means for food lawThe upcoming general election on 4 July means the dissolution of Parliament on 30 May. As a result, any legislation that was not passed during the recent wash-up period will no longer be considered. It remains uncertain whether the newly elected government will reintroduce these bills, as they are not obligated to do so.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Katie Vickery |Veronica Webster Celda |Stefanie Lo
The Food Standards Agency (FSA), alongside Food Standards
Scotland (FSS), launched a consultation on proposals to reform the
authorisation process for regulated products on 3 April 2024.
Regulated products are food and feed products which require
authorisation before they can be sold and include food additives,
flavourings, novel foods, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as
food and feed, food contact materials and feed additives.
