Barbara Kolsun Barbara Kolsun is General Counsel of Stuart Weitzman, LLC, where she started the company's first in-house legal department. She has devoted significant time and effort to the protection of intellectual property, serving as Chairman... Read More

Italian newspapers reported that last Sunday, June 6 2010, an Austrian tourist who bought a 7 Euro fake Louis Vuitton purse from a beach vendor in Jesolo, an Italian beach resort near Venice, got slapped with a 1,000 Euro fine. Under Article 1(7... Read More

By Tyler Baker Luxury brand titan Louis Vuitton recently achieved a significant victory over counterfeiting of its designer products. In an action brought in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Louis Vuitton sued the Eisenhauer... Read More

From the US Customs and Border Protection More than $60,000 of Counterfeit Sports Apparel Seized Los Angeles - Cracking down on unlicensed merchandise arriving from China, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and import specialists confiscated... Read More

Source is a critical signal of value in the fashion industry. This value is often a vulnerability, however, as the industry's most coveted brands struggle to maintain the appeal and exclusivity of their marks amid a thriving gray market for knock... Read More