Unauthorised fashion upcycling held unlawful by French first instance court (opens in new tab)

The Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris, building on its earlier approach to upcycling [see IPKat here], recently held that the use of “COCO”, “CHANEL”, and/or the fashion brand’s figurative mark consisting of two intertwined “C”s on upcycled Chanel products constituted trade mark infringement under Article L713-2 of the Intellectual Property Code (IPC). Additionally, it ruled that the defendant company