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Look at Zara. Without patents on clothing design, Zara often copies the latest catalogs from luxury designers and gets them to mass markets even before they do.
by quotz 7y ago
Look at Zara. Without patents on clothing design, Zara often copies the latest catalogs from luxury designers and gets them to mass markets even before they do. From an operational standpoint its a great company. Thats why its worth billions of dollars and its the greatest retailer in Europe, and probably in the world.
- CalChris 7y agoAllBirds does have design patents. https://patents.justia.com/assignee/allbirds-inc https://patents.justia.com/assignee/allbirds-inc
- quotz 7y agoOne cant patent design, only functionality. Thats why theres so much branding in the fashion industry
- CalChris 7y agoThere are three kinds of patents: utility, design and patent [1]. For example, the Apple Samsung lawsuit was over a design patent [2]. Design patents are good for 14 year. [1] https://www.justia.com/intellectual-property/patents/types-of-patents/ https://www.justia.com/intellectual-property/patents/types-o... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electronics_Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....