The World Trade Organization (WTO)’s Appellate Body has ruled in favoured Mexico over the US in a trade dispute, stating that the US requirement for dolphin-safe tuna labels was discriminatory to Mexican fishermen. The latest ...
Tags: Tuna Fish Products, Labeling
Skechers USA Inc. claimed a partial victory Thursday in its patent infringement dispute with Nike Inc.’s wholly-owned subsidiary Converse Inc. relating to the Converse Chuck Taylor shoe. In October 2014, Converse sued Skechers in ...
Tags: Skechers, Converse, athletic footwear
Indian food regulator Food Safety and Regulatory Authority of India (FSSAI) has stated that the recently-launched Patanjali Atta Noodles by yoga guru Ramdev did not carry the regulator’s approval. However, the FSSAI chairperson ...
The Chief Judge of the International Trade Commission (ITC) validated Converse's intellectual property rights in the iconic Chuck Taylor All Star and supported its right to enforcement, according to a statement from Converse. Converse ...
European Union regulators have concluded that the widely used herbicide glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer, a ruling that runs counter to a controversial assessment issued recently by an arm of the World Health Organization. The ...
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Lighting Science Group Corporation (OTCQB: LSCG), a leading global manufacturer of innovative LED lighting solutions, announced that on August 5, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio granted Lighting ...
India-based United Breweries Group is seeking a buyer for its residual 4% stake in United Spirits worth Rs 22bn ($331m) to repay its loans. The development may also see its chairman Vijay Mallya quit his position in United Spirits by ...
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Globalized competition is inevitable in the LED industry with an increasing number of overseas LED companies entering Chinese market and vice versa. Chinese LED companies acquire renowned international manufacturers, fewer companies ...
Diageo’s Indian unit United Spirits is planning to cut down around 150 of its brands to focus on better performing brands and strengthen its business in a market that is seemingly dominated by local, cheaper brands. The British ...
The National Business Work Conference was held in Beijing on December 28, 2014. The main tasks of the conference were to fully implement the spirits of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 3rd and the 4th Plenary ...
Tags: National Business Work Conference, deepen reform, foreign trade
The MOFCOM released announcement No. 15 of 2015 on May 18, 2015, announcing the preliminary ruling on the anti-dumping investigation against the Fiber Preform imported from Japan and the U.S.. The MOFCOM made the ruling that Imported ...
Tags: anti-dumping, Fiber
On August 19, the Ministry of Commerce released its announcement No. 25 with a final ruling on the anti-dumping investigation on optical fiber preform imported from Japan and the U.S.. The Ministry of Commerce confirmed that dumping ...
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In general, LED Manufacturers performed quite well over the past eight months in 2015. But competition among LED manufacturers intensified through price wars, patent disputes and fighting over distribution channel were overwhelming. A ...
Nestlé has seen a setback as it failed to convince the EU's top court to let it trademark the shape of its four-fingered version of Kit Kat chocolate bar in the UK. The European Court of Justice ruled that the Swiss food company ...
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Japanese automobile major Suzuki Motor will buy back the 19.9% share it divested to German carmaker Volkswagen (VW) after the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce ironed out their feud. Suzuki had ...
Tags: Suzuki Motor, automobile