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Watch company Swatch has successfully opposed Apple's "iWatch" trademark on the basis of its registrations covering the logo "iSwatch" and the word "Swatch". | 9yrs

Cosmetics giant Revlon has agreed to buy skincare and fragrance brand Elizabeth Arden for $870m with advice from two heavyweight law firms. | 10yrs

A lawsuit filed this week in London alleges that the iconic Alexander McQueen wedding dress worn by Kate Middleton (now the Duchess of Cambridge) on her wedding day was in fact copied from the designs of another, lesser known British designer. | 10yrs

The crackdown on offshore financial centres is casting a shadow over the luxury property market, one of the subjects for discussion at next month's Luxury Law Summit in London on 17th May. | 10yrs

The Ray-Ban sunglasses maker stumbled on the Borsa Italiana on Tuesday after unveiling a $1.6bn investment in its global expansion strategy. | 10yrs

A London judge has ordered UK internet service providers to block websites selling counterfeit Cartier and Montblanc goods, securing yet another win for luxury brands fighting intellectual property crime. | 10yrs

Christian Louboutin has headed up a cast of luxury winners at the Luxury Law Awards, sponsored by Georg Jensen. | 11yrs

A growing conundrum for top in-house lawyers at luxury brand businesses is that while their legal teams are generally fairly small, workloads have increased dramatically over recent years. Jonathan Ames reports from the Luxury Law Summit. | 11yrs

LVMH is attempting to grow its media empire with the purchase of French daily newspaper Le Parisien. The group already owns the business daily Les Echos. | 11yrs

Bulgari is stepping further into the hotel industry. The Italian jeweller has reached agreement with Dubai developer Meraas Holding to build a luxury resort on Jumeirah Bay Island. | 11yrs

L'Oreal's former head patent lawyer Steven Trzaska is suing the beauty company, which he alleges fired him because he refused to file applications that were not patentable. | 11yrs

Americans and Japanese spend the most on luxury goods, with the aspirational consumers taking the lead. | 11yrs

Richemont chairman Johann Rupert has reportedly invited LVMH and Kering to join the luxury retail website that will be formed by the merger of Yoox and Net-a-Porter. | 11yrs

A new study from OHIM, the EU's intellectual property agency, shows that the sale of fake clothes, shoes and accessories in the EU equals nearly 10 per cent of the total sales in the sector throughout the EU-28. | 11yrs

Salvatore Ferragamo has taken the unusual step of going public on the scale of counterfeiting against its brand. | 11yrs

The $450 billion luxury industry may be in a state of flux with mixed messages from China, but there was plenty of optimism at the Luxury Law Summit in London, reports Jonathan Ames. | 11yrs

Spanish retailers have been ordered to clear the shelves of a range of 'smell-alike' perfumes following a successful trademark suit. | 11yrs

'Trade dress' has usually referred to packaging but a recent court case extended its use to a website. | 11yrs

E-commerce sales in China have outpaced the US, making it one of the most lucrative markets in the world. Brand protection group Mark Monitor has produced a white paper: Best Practices for Brand Protection and Effective Enforcement in China. | 11yrs