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Our Clients  The Legal 500 o Trademarks: Litigation 2019, 2018 Katten's attorneys represent clients from all  Managing Intellectual Property IP Stars areas of the $375 billion fashion industry, counseling o Trademark Contentious (United States) companies that manufacture, design, market, source 2017 and sell lines of , jewelry, accessories and luxury o Trademark Prosecution (United States) goods. Our team assists clients in preserving their core 2017 identities while they grow and expand into new  Managing Intellectual Property Annual Awards markets or consolidate. o Trademark Contentious (Midwest Region) Our Services 2017  U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” We advise companies on international expansion o Litigation – Intellectual Property (National, and consolidation as well as the production, distribution, Chicago) 2019, 2018 advertising, marketing and sale of their products and o Trademark Law (National, ) 2019, services. We help our clients keep up with new 2018 strategies and business and licensing plans and mitigate issues before they arise. With lawyers fully dedicated to the fashion industry and its unique challenges, we secure, protect and enforce clients' business names, trademarks, service marks, trade names, brand names, logos, designs, patents, proprietary technology and trade secrets. We also offer assistance with creating an Internet presence, software agreements, contracts with Working both in the United States and internationally, Internet e-signers and providers, disclaimers and our lawyers perform detailed patent, trademark and copyright notices, copyright protection, consent ownership searches, prepare and file applications, and agreements, photo use policies and sponsorship maintain an extensive and thorough in-house database agreements. Clients turn to us to monitor, enforce and and docketing system to ensure that our clients' protect against the unauthorized sale of products or use intellectual property rights are fiercely guarded. We of their property, including addressing domain protect our clients' rights and help them avoid infringing infringements, false advertising and unfair competition others' rights through extensive investigations, domain claims. name enforcement and registration, preparation of notice The Fashion attorneys tap into the cumulative letters, commencement of litigation, and recordation of knowledge of our intellectual property, licensing and intellectual property rights with US Customs and Border distribution, media, Internet and litigation attorneys.

Protection (CBP). We also zealously defend our clients of our client and ordered that ownership of the against claims asserted by others. domain name at issue be transferred to our client.

Our attorneys draft, negotiate, implement and administer  Representation of HMX, LLC, the purchaser of the all types of agreements, including transfer, sponsorship, intellectual property assets of Hartmarx endorsement, distribution, sourcing, consulting, retail (and its successor entity XHM Corp), in a store and in-store, export customer, manufacturing and court sale and transaction in connection with other commercial agreements. By developing, litigation against Pusser's (2001) Ltd. Specifically, investigating and researching a client's intellectual Katten commenced a proceeding in the US property portfolio, reviewing existing agreements, Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois recording proper title and security interests and by filing a motion to compel compliance with the sale preparing all related documents, Katten attorneys order issued by the bankruptcy court. The sale order shepherd clients through the ever-changing fashion included the transfer, free and clear of all claims, of industry. intellectual property and trademarks, including the Pusser's trademarks, trademark registrations and Our Experience related goodwill. Pusser's had attempted to interfere with the client's ownership of and right to use and  Defense of Mansur Gavriel in a trademark registration, where the owner of a jewelry mark exploit the Pusser's trademarks it acquired as a result of the bankruptcy court sale order. This opposed our client's registration of MANSUR interference included filing a challenge before the GAVRIEL for and wallets. The TTAB dismissed the Section 2(d) opposition, finding the TTAB. The bankruptcy court granted HMX's motion to compel compliance, and ordered Pusser's to plaintiff failed to prove priority and the marks were not confusingly similar. Royal Chain Inc. v. Mansur dismiss its proceeding commenced before the Gavriel LLC. TTAB.  Representation of The Warnaco Group, Inc. in a  Trademark litigation counsel to Arcadia Group Ltd. in connection with protecting TopShop, series of transactions, resulting in the formation by the client of a new joint venture for the sale of Calvin one of the most famous brands in fashion with a Klein apparel and accessories in India. The joint tremendous international value, through ongoing federal litigation in the United States (with related venture was formed together with Brand Marketing India, a current distribution partner of the client. actions pending abroad) and by dealing with rights Representation included strategic evaluation and to a mark which achieved fame overseas before substantial recognition was reached in the United direction concerning the form and format of the transaction; coordination with corporate and tax States. Katten represented Arcadia against counsel; preparation of all intellectual property Slovenian company Studio Moderna in a matter involving rights to TopShop for retail services in the documents; and preparation, editing and finalizing all United States. trademark license agreements, extensions and amendments. The transaction also involved the  Representation of Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation extension and amendment of multiple license in opposition proceeding involving famous and agreements and related agreements with Warnaco's iPod trademarks. Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation v. licensor, , Inc. Apple Inc.  Successful representation of The Warnaco Group,  Representation of Helmut Lang New York LLC in a Inc. and Calvin Klein Trademark Trust in connection UDRP Complaint filed with the WIPO Arbitration and with a UDRP complaint filed with the WIPO Mediation Center. A third party had registered a Arbitration and Mediation Center. A third party had domain name incorporating our client's federally registered five domain names incorporating the registered HELMUT LANG trademark and was using client's federally registered Calvin Klein trademark such domain name in connection with a website that and was using those domain names to intercept sought to intercept and siphon off Internet traffic Internet traffic intended for the client's products, intended for our client's products. WIPO held in favor misdirecting them to sites selling unauthorized

products bearing the client's trademarks. WIPO held accessories under certain client brands in the in favor of the client on all three prongs of the UDRP People's Republic of (including mainland complaint, and the domain names at issue were China, and ), and the right to ordered to be transferred to Warnaco Group, Inc. open freestanding stores and shop-in-shops under the client's name in the People's Republic of China.  Successful defense of USA, the US distributor of the Speedo brand , in a false  Representation of one of the 's largest apparel advertising, Lanham Act, antitrust and unfair companies in connection with establishing a joint competition case brought by a competitor in venture that will license from its wholly owned connection with the marketing and promotion of the subsidiaries the rights to operate and manage the Speedo LZR, the revolutionary competitive racing distribution of client-branded products in . worn by more than 70% of the medalists at the  Representation of a leading performance apparel 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Plaintiff, and accessories brand focused on temperature- Speedo's primary competitor in the sale of control technologies in connection with its competitive racing , sued Speedo in the negotiation of a brand ambassador agreement with US District Court for the Central District of California an actress and recording artist who became the face for false leading advertising, Lanham Act violations, of the client's newly launched women's apparel monopolization, exclusive dealing and other alleged collection. torts. Plaintiff claimed that Speedo misrepresented the test results of swim time improvements achieved  Representation of a fashion house in negotiating using the LZR Racer. Plaintiff also claimed that model contracts for the lead actors of a 2017 Speedo's sponsorship of USA Swimming—the Academy Award-winning picture to star in the client's national governing body for amateur swimming in new advertising campaign for underwear. the United States—and its head coach gave Speedo  Representation of a fashion house in connection an unfair advantage in marketing its to elite with its global intellectual property portfolio, including swimmers and other swimmers who race. After a with respect to trademark and copyright prosecution motion to dismiss, in which some of plaintiff's claims and enforcement matters such as a worldwide were dismissed, the parties engaged in extensive branding and style expansion, acquisition of third- discovery. After two motions for summary judgment, party property and comprehensive integration of a plaintiff's remaining claims were dismissed. Plaintiff brand portfolio. did not appeal. Tyr Sport, Inc. v. Warnaco  Representation of a fashion house in connection Swimwear, Inc., dba Speedo USA. with its exploitation of its historical association with a  Representation of a brand development and model/actress and a photographer, including the licensing company that owns various trademark simultaneous completion of agreements with each rights relating to a deceased iconic celebrity as that support the use of a new logo design, graphic plaintiff in the US District Court for the Southern and artwork for jeanswear. District Court of New York; Katten's client asserted  Representation of an apparel retailer and designer in claims for trademark infringement, trademark dilution connection with its completion of new licensing and unfair competition by a -based arrangements for broad categories of skincare and manufacturer and wholesaler of intimate apparel makeup products, initially in , and then for through the use of the celebrity's image and domestic sale and promotion. The transaction attributed quotes without a license. A consent involved complicated structural coordination for the judgment was entered in favor of our client and brands, manufacturing and licensed territories, as parties reached a settlement. well as coordination with other related agreements.  Representation of an apparel retailer and designer in  Representation of an international fashion house in connection with a license agreement pursuant to a dispute in the Netherlands relating to competitor which the licensee was granted the right to allegations that strips on the coin pockets of our manufacture, distribute and sell certain men's client's infringed plaintiff's pocket strip. women's, children's and unisex apparel and

Working with local Dutch counsel, Katten defeated permission to manufacture and sell bearing plaintiff's effort to obtain a temporary restraining the client's brands. The licensee experienced some order, with the courts finding that there was no issues that warranted review with counsel as to best infringement. practices.  Representation of a luxury hip hop sneaker designer  Representation of an apparel retailer and designer in in obtaining multiple design patents for leatherwear enforcing a family of marks against use of a similar and worldwide trademark registrations for a design mark in a sneaker collaboration between a fashion and logo. house and a rapper.  Representation of an American fashion house in licensing its line, giving another company