adidas Enters Trademark Battle with J. Crew Over Striped Pattern

adidas has filed a request with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to shut down J. Crew's application for a trademark containing five stripes, as reported by The Fashion Law. The German athletic footwear and apparel company believes J.Crew's stripes are too close for comfort to its classic three-stripe branding, stating that J. Crew "incorporates three stripes in a manner that is confusingly similar to adidas's three-stripe mark in appearance and overall commercial impression." adidas is mainl...