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Gibbons to Co-Sponsor and Present “U.S. Economic Update” in New York on December 4

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Posted in Corporate

On November 13, 2025

You are invited to join Gibbons and co-sponsors J.P. Morgan and the German American Chamber of Commerce (GACC) for a high-level event addressing today’s most pressing economic challenges for business executives. U.S. Economic Update Thursday, December 4, 2025 J.P. Morgan 383 Madison Ave., 13th Floor New York, NY 10179 Meera Pandit, Global Market Strategist at J.P. Morgan, will open the program with an immersive analysis of the U.S. economic outlook. Afterward, Eric Udowychenko, a Director in the Gibbons Corporate Group, will moderate an insightful and engaging panel of legal, accounting, logistics, and FX-rate rate professionals who will explore the impact of American tariff and trade policies on international business, the implications of the One Big Beautiful Bill, and developing trends in logistics and supply chain management. An audience Q&A session will follow the panel. For more information or to register, please see the GACC website.

The United States Deposits Ratification of the 1999 Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement and Becomes a Member Country of the Hague System

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Posted in Patent / USPTO

On February 24, 2015

On Friday, February 13, 2015, the United States deposited an instrument of ratification to the 1999 Geneva Act (Geneva Act) of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (Hague Agreement) with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). With this final step by the United States to become a signatory to the Geneva Act, qualifying U.S. applicants will be able to more easily protect their design patents in member countries and intergovernmental organizations (Contracting Parties) that have also signed on to the Geneva Act.

Color Trademarks Remain in Fashion: Second Circuit Sides with Louboutin

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Posted in Trademarks

On September 5, 2012

Earlier today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in Christian Louboutin S.A. v. Yves Saint Laurent America Holding, Inc.. The Appellate Court decision reversed the lower court’s finding that a single color can never serve as a trademark for fashion. It also found that Louboutin’s red, lacquered shoe outsole had acquired distinctiveness and is protectable as a trademark. However, the Court went on to state that the trademark is “limited to uses where the red outsole contrasts with the color of the remainder of the shoe.” The case has now been remanded to the District Court for further proceedings.

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