Consumer Products/Apparel

We have considerable experience representing retailers and manufacturers in disputes involving trademarks, trade dress, counterfeiting, grey market imports, copyrights, patents, and unfair competition claims, as well as a range of other commercial litigation and business tort claims. 

We have also successfully defended and advised retailers in disputes involving false, deceptive, and unfair advertising; comparative advertising; consumer fraud (including claims under California’s Unfair Competition Law, Calif. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200); trade libel; and other claims concerning commercial speech, advertising, and marketing. 

We have advised retailers and manufacturers regarding compliance with federal and state laws and regulations involving consumer product safety, food and dietary supplement labeling and packing, in-store price displays and scanner requirements, Internet sales and home delivery of groceries and alcoholic beverages, and numerous other regulatory compliance issues.

The firm’s attorneys have represented retailers and manufacturers in intellectual property licensing and assignments, patent and trademark applications, distribution, supplier and customer contracts, development and joint-venture agreements, and a wide range of other transactions involving consumer goods.

We also have considerable experience in antidumping and other international trade disputes involving consumer products and manufacturing materials. 

Noteworthy

• Clothing Manufacturer Triumphs in London

Select News & Events

• Michelle A. Cooke Joins IP Practice as Partner
• Steptoe Adds Rich Reinis to Century City Office
• The End of Quotas: What You Can Do to Prepare for US Trade Actions
• Apparel & Textile Trade After 2008: Trade Remedies in a Post-Quota World

Publications

• Consumer Product Safety Advisory - Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008
  August 4, 2008
• Apparel Industry Alert - The End of Quotas: What Chinese Companies Can Do to Prepare for US Trade Actions
  June 12, 2008
• Apparel Industry Alert - Vietnamese Apparel Imports
  May 6, 2008