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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 10:43 PM EST |
My Mothers shop used to sell sewn goods (clothing and dolls). The competition
would come into the store and buy the new items, they would take them apart to
make a pattern and start making them themselves. At the time there wasn't much
you could do to stop them other than have the items first, since a small change
would make them different. There is almost no barrier to making a copy of
clothing you like like software. This may explain why big brands work their
trademark into the design so they have a way to fight back. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 15 2013 @ 11:02 AM EST |
Can you imagine patents on platform shoes [...]?
Patent
heels, you mean?
At any rate, most certainly ways to give platform shoes
more stability and less weight will be patentable. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: albert on Tuesday, January 15 2013 @ 12:22 PM EST |
App£e has always been a boutique company, not that there's anything wrong with
that. There's a lot of money to be made in the fashion business. That's why
the big fashion houses jealously guard their names and trademarks, and they
_will_ sue to protect them. When you buy clothing from a Big House, you are
paying a premium for the Name. Fashion has a biannual product cycle, which
requires a lot of effort in designing and producing two complete lines of NEW
product every year. When your designer runs out of ideas, your product line will
fail. How is this not like App£e?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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