{"id":10536,"date":"2025-02-10T18:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/rafting-goldstars-latest-victory-over-birkenstock\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T18:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T17:30:21","slug":"rafting-goldstars-latest-victory-over-birkenstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/rafting-goldstars-latest-victory-over-birkenstock\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafting Goldstar&#8217;s latest victory over Birkenstock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"articleWrapper _hero-content-wrapper\" id=\"top\">\n<div class=\"articleContent _hero-content-body\">\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ddala6tn0\">In August 2015, Birkenstock sued Rafting Goldstar, an Italian family business, in the Milan court for counterfeiting one of its trademarks: the tread design of the sole of their sandals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ijoeieel0\">In September 2018, the European Court of Justice declared the trademark devoid of distinction, but Birkenstock, not content, continued the lawsuits at the national level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ijoeieeq0\">Since then, several courts have ruled in favor of the Italian company: in March 2018, the Benelux court and in May 2024, the German Federal Court of Justice confirmed the decision of the European Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ijoeieet0\">Confirmation also came in January 2025 from the Paris Court of Appeal, which also declared the attempt to register the sole design as a trademark null and void, once again ruling in favor of Rafting Goldstar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ijoeief00\">We are now awaiting the judgment of the Italian Second Instance Court.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image _fit-frame-height-to-content\" data-tap-fullscreen=\"\" data-component-id=\"doc-1de48tpjv0\">\n<div doc-image=\"image\" doc-link=\"hyperlink\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/120420-120417.jpeg'); display: block; height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 103.001%; background-position: 50% 50%;\"><\/div><figcaption doc-editable=\"caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian family business has once again prevailed over the global luxury giant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-news-arsutoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}