Thom Browne Wins Stripes Trademark Case Against Adidas

“Back to business,” the Thom Browne Instagram account posted on Friday, a day after a New York jury sided with the label in a trademark infringement suit filed by the sportswear megabrand Adidas. The caption accompanied a photo carousel of close-ups from the Thom Browne menswear show in Paris last summer: a slew of models’ pelvises adorned with red, white, and blue striped jockstraps. The verdict comes after a nine-day trial to decide the trademark claim Adidas brought against the American luxury label in 2021, claiming that the similarities between Browne’s parallel stripes motif and Adidas’s three-stripe trademark may confuse… Read Full Article