either pay or have more than a frame lead in a best of ii and a mess from hawkins in the decider was crucial. trump went on to construct the break that he needed to win the match by six frames to five in the 2019th champion will play shawn murphy stuart bingham in the semifinals. there quarterfinal is just under way. that s all the support for now. much more later on. adidas has lost a court case to stop fashion designer from using a four stripe design. the sportswear brand argued that luxury brand, thom browne inc s design was too similar to their three stripe design. browne responded, arguing that consumers were unlikely to confuse the two brands partly due to the differenmt number of stripes. with me now is hayleigh bosher, senior lecturer in intellectual property law at brunel university. do you think adidas ever had a chance of winning this, or where do you draw the line, as it were, if a company were told they couldn t use
adidas has lost a court case to stop a fashion designer from using a four stripe design. the sportswear brand argued that luxury brand, thom browne inc s design was too similar to their three stripe design. dr hayleigh bosher, intellectual property lecturer at brunel university told me what the outcome means for the brand. they ve had a lot of cases recently and we have seen that they ve done 90 lawsuits since 2008, and they have done 200 settlements, so they are big on taking the risk of enforcing their intellectual property. that includes two stripes, three straights, four stripes, they try their luck. what is in it for them? what do they fear? that it might somehow devalue their brand? but if it is a luxury designer who is using something similar, is there really any harm that could be done? yeah, so a trademark is really there to protect the brand, and it is important to enforce your trademark because the worry is if you don t, it can dilute the value of the mark,
streaming services such as netflix may be illegal, that s according to the intellectual property office. the government body says the practice, common among friends and families, breaks copyright law. netflix have never indicated they d take legal action against anyone caught sharing their account, but have said they ll be rolling out new features next year to make sharing easier, including more fees. so, what does all this mean? joining me now is technology journalist chris stokel walker, and senior lecturer in intellectual property law, hayleigh bosher. and qfor and q forjoining us at first of all, do you agree that this could be all, do you agree that this could be a legal? i all, do you agree that this could be a leual? ~ all, do you agree that this could be aleaal? ~ . , a legal? i think technically there are, it is hard a legal? i think technically there are, it is hard to a legal? i think technically there are, it is hard to say. a legal? i think technically there are, it