{"id":1599,"date":"2024-07-03T00:52:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T00:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/copyright-claim-against-louis-vuittons-similar-designs-allowed-to-proceed\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T17:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:21:41","slug":"copyright-claim-against-louis-vuittons-similar-designs-allowed-to-proceed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/copyright-claim-against-louis-vuittons-similar-designs-allowed-to-proceed\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyright Claim Against Louis Vuitton&#8217;s Similar Designs Allowed to Proceed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A federal judge in Pennsylvania\u00a0is allowing an independent designer\u2019s\u00a0copyright claim against Louis Vuitton to proceed, concluding allegations were plausibly alleged as there was sufficient similarities between the parties\u2019 warped black-and-white checkerboard patterns.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1VTKbYkrpWwc-NyMeoS_T-OS3MnvTLtoL\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Friday opinion<\/a>, U.S. District Judge John F. Murphy for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania sustained a copyright claim against Louis Vuitton USA, concluding the independent designer, Paula Hian, who owns Paula Hian Creations, sufficiently alleged that Louis Vuitton\u2019s design pattern was similar to her\u00a0\u201dPlaque D\u2019egout\u201d pattern. Hian claimed Louis Vuitton\u00a0had access to her design.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Pennsylvania\u00a0is allowing an independent designer\u2019s\u00a0copyright claim against Louis Vuitton to proceed, concluding allegations were plausibly alleged as there was sufficient similarities between the parties\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2277,786,429,2276,2224,1849,2275,2274],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-allowed","tag-claim","tag-copyright","tag-designs","tag-louis","tag-proceed","tag-similar","tag-vuittons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}