Last month there was some press about a pair of trademark infringement lawsuits between Adidas (sorry marketing types, I just can't do the lower case letter "a" in "adidas") and Riedell over the number of stripes appearing on their sports footwear products.
You may recall, while we're on the subject of stripes, that I previously have written: "Adidas appears to have gained a one stripe buffer on either side of its powerful three stripe iconic symbol" in Counting By Numbers, or Stripes? A Likelihood of Confusion Tale.
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