Cage, A Sports Shoe Manufacturer, Accuses Felis Shoes Of Patent Infringement.

< p > > a href= "http://sjfzxm.com//business/" > sports shoes manufacturer /a < Kai (6.52, -0.07, -1.06%) odd American company (NYSE:SKX) said on Thursday that it had filed a lawsuit against Felix USA, accusing the company of producing Amazen Memory Moc shoes which infringed the patents related to the Skech (45.3, Memory), and sought compensatory and punitive damages.

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< p > Skech also filed similar lawsuits against Adidas's Reebok last month, accusing the latter of Walk Ahead RS's infringement of Go Walk's patent.

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< p > related links: Vietnam leather and Footwear Association consider introducing leather quality testing system < /p >

< p > Vietnam leather and Footwear Association (Lefaso) is considering introducing quality inspection system to detect imported leather specially.

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P Phan Secretary Thanh Thi Thanh said that Vietnam imports about 150 thousand tons of leather every year, but Vietnam has a very small number of leather inspection centers.

"As a result, shoe manufacturers can only detect raw materials and products by themselves, in order to meet the needs of importers".

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< p > she added that many samples had to be sent overseas for testing, which increased the cost.

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< p > a government official agrees with a set of control measures that Vietnam is going to introduce, especially considering the potential growth opportunities that the new trade agreement will bring. It is necessary to better control the import of raw materials and products.

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< p > Russia's 2014 luxury consumption is expected to shrink 4-6% < /p >

P, Italy high-end enterprise association Altagamma held a meeting in Milan on Tuesday to discuss the luxury consumption situation of the key market of luxury goods in Russia.

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P pointed out that Russia's total consumption of personal luxury goods in 2013 was 5 billion 800 million euros, an increase of 5% over 2012. It is the fifth largest and tenth largest market in Europe.

However, because of Russia's annual inflation expectations of 6.5%, the stagnation of GDP growth and the expected decrease in the balance of payments and the multiple factors such as the Crimea crisis, the rouble depreciation and the capital outflow reaching the maximum in recent years, the total consumption of luxury goods in 2014 is expected to shrink by 4%-6% compared with last year.

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< p > the purchasing power of Russians in the European Union countries has significantly weakened in the first five months of this year, according to data from Global Blue global blue Union, a travel rebate service group.

Among them, the UK recorded a 20.1% decline, Germany's year-on-year fall by 15.8%, while Italy and France both decreased by 12.8%.

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< p > according to the total consumption in 2013, Moscow accounted for 59% of the total in the capital and 5% in 2014.

St Petersburg accounts for 16% of the country's luxury consumption, ranking second.

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Armando Branchini, vice president of the P Altagamma foundation, believes that the vulnerability of Russia's economic structure will bring greater damage to the geopolitical crisis than it will eventually solve and will continue to affect the luxury industry for many years.

He expects Russia to turn around after the 2017 luxury tariff cut.

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