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Perspective

Nov. 10, 2016

Fashion tech: redesigning trademark protection

The tech and fashion industries have seen more collaborations in 2016 than in any previous year, and they have melded form and function in ways never imagined. By Christine B. Redfield

Christine B. Redfield

Of Counsel
Fenwick & West LLP

intellectual property

801 California St
Mountain View , CA 94041

Phone: (650) 988-8500

Fax: (650) 938-5200

Email: credfield@fenwick.com

Santa Clara Univ School of Law

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By Christine B. Redfield

The tech and fashion industries have seen more collaborations in 2016 than in any previous year, with high-profile co-branding relationships recently forged between French fashion designer Marchesa and IBM, Tory Burch and Fitbit, and Kate Spade and Everpurse. The resulting products are an exciting mix of innovation and creativity. They have melded form and function in ways never imagined.

For example, Marchesa's "Co...

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