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According to Michael Shaw, a patent attorney with the London intellectual-property firm of Marks & Clerk, it’s only been possible for a brand to trademark a color since 1996, and it’s never been
louboutin heels easy. “It [must] be shown that the color has acquired a highly distinctive character as a result of substantial use,” he says. (Rare examples: Tiffany & Co.’s trademark of the robin’s egg blue gift box and Owens Corning’s mark for pink fiberglass insulation.) “Generally speaking, colors don’t function as trademarks,” adds New York Law School professor Dan Hunter. “But they can with enough use,
louboutin pumps black, enough marketing, and enough consumer recognition. Which is what happened with red-soled
Louboutin shoes.”
But in
Louboutin’s case, there’s an X factor that goes beyond what his lawyers will have to prove in court (which is that the competing red soles are likely to cause consumer confusion between the brands). Women don’t drop $1,000 on a pair of CLs because they happen to like red under their feet; they do it because they like what that red
louboutin men represents. “I talked to a very successful businesswoman about this the other day,” relates Milton Pedraza, CEO of the Luxury Institute. “And she said, ‘Of course that red sole matters. It signals to the world that I wear
Louboutins—a top-of-the-line shoe. It [says] I’m a successful woman, and I bought these myself, that I’m powerful—and still feminine.”
Christian Louboutin probably didn’t set out to create a buy christian product with socio-######ual overtones as complex as that, but it’s part of what he’s defending in court right now. “That sole has a lot of messaging embedded in it,
louboutin shop,” Pedraza says. “It’s about the emancipation of women in the corporate suite.”
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