Trademark infringement action: The French Supreme Court holds that the inscription of someone else's trademark on a counterfait shoe brings discredit on a shoe collection of this brand – to clients and consumers – and creates a brand image harm, which is separate from the shoe slavish imitation retained for trademark infringement (Pindière / Venaty et Creaciones)

Durand, Valérie

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CASE COMMENTS: RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES – SEPARATE FACTS

3 May 2016

Trademark infringement action: The French Supreme Court holds that the inscription of someone else’s trademark on a counterfait shoe brings discredit on a shoe collection of this brand – to clients and consumers – and creates a brand image harm, which is separate from the shoe slavish imitation retained for trademark infringement (Pindière / Venaty et Creaciones)

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Cass. com., 3 mai 2016, Pindière / Venaty et Creaciones, n° 13-23416

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Valérie Durand
University Littoral-Cote d’Opale (Boulogne/Mer)

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Valérie Durand, Trademark infringement action: The French Supreme Court holds that the inscription of someone else’s trademark on a counterfait shoe brings discredit on a shoe collection of this brand – to clients and consumers – and creates a brand image harm, which is separate from the shoe slavish imitation retained for trademark infringement (Pindière / Venaty et Creaciones), 3 May 2016, Concurrences Nº 3-2016, Art. N° 80842, p. 106

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