{"id":139979,"date":"2018-06-12T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/louboutin-wins-legal-battle-over-red-soles\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:32:03","slug":"louboutin-wins-legal-battle-over-red-soles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/louboutin-wins-legal-battle-over-red-soles\/","title":{"rendered":"Louboutin wins legal battle over red soles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Christian Louboutin heels\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/16CE\/production\/_101983850_gettyimages-76148047.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Christian Louboutin has been battling to protect its red sole designs                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Europe&#039;s highest court has backed Christian Louboutin in its battle to protect its distinctive red soles.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Louboutin sued rival firm Van Hagen for selling high heeled shoes with scarlet soles. <\/p>\n<p>Under EU law companies cannot trademark common shapes of products such as the soles of shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Van Hagen argued that applying red to a shoe sole came under that law and, as a result, Louboutin did not have trademark protection for its red soles.<\/p>\n<p>However, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) said that shape trademarks do not apply to Louboutin&#039;s red sole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption Christian Louboutin has been battling to protect its red sole designs Europe&#039;s highest court has backed Christian Louboutin in its battle to protect its distinctive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}