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Yves Saint Laurent has responded to accusations that it copied Christian Louboutin's trademark red soles, by asserting the shoe designer doesn't have a monopoly on the colour.

"Red outsoles are a commonly used ornamental design feature in footwear, dating as far back as the red shoes worn by King Louis XIV in the 1600s and the ruby red shoes that carried Dorothy home in The Wizard of Oz," court papers filed by YSL read. "As an industry leader who has devoted his entire professional life to women's footwear, Mr Louboutin either knew or should have known about some or all of the dozens of footwear models that rendered his sworn statement false."

In a lawsuit launched last month in New York, Louboutin is seeking damages of $1 million from YSL which - Louboutin claims - has copied his signature coloured sole on "virtually identical" shoes.

Updated Wednesday April 20, 4.23pm: Louboutin has spoken out for the first time about his court case against Yves Saint Laurent, following allegations the luxury fashion house copied his famous red soles.

"I have the biggest respect for the house of Yves Saint Laurent," the designer tells the Evening Standard. "Having discussed the matter with them and not been able to reach an agreement, we have had to take this to court. My company has a trademark on the red sole and if we don't enforce it this would leave the door open for other brands to copy us while jeopardising the identity of the Louboutin red sole. No one before me has ever used a coloured sole to define a brand's identity. The red sole has become widely recognised as the distinct sign of my brand in the eyes of women all over the world."

Updated Tuesday April 12, 09.14am: Christian Louboutin is suing a second footwear company, Carmen Steffens, for replicating his signature red soles. The Brazilian label has fought back against the allegations, commenting that it has been using the colour red on its soles since 1996 - before Louboutin officially trademarked it in the US.

"Carmen Steffens France is confident in its position regarding the brand's long-standing use of colour on the soles of some styles of Carmen Steffens shoes, including the infrequent use of various tones of red," Carmen Steffens' president of US operations, Mark Willingham, told Footwear News. "Of the 250 styles in Carmen Steffens France's current collection, only three styles utilise red tones on their soles."

Updated Friday April 8, 1.50 pm: Christian Louboutin is suing Yves Saint Laurent for putting red soles on its shoes.

Louboutin filed a trademark infringement lawsuit in New York on Thursday, alleging that YSL has breached its copyright by using the red sole.

"Mr. Louboutin is the first designer to develop the idea of having red soles on women's shoes," the lawsuit said, Reuters reports. "The defendants' use of red footwear outsoles that are virtually identical to the plaintiffs' Red Sole Mark is likely to cause and is causing confusion, mistake and deception among the relevant purchasing public."

Louboutin - which trademarked the red sole in the US in 2008 - says that it asked YSL to refrain from using the red colour in January this year, but the company has not yet responded. The shoe company is asking the court to award it $1 million in damages and to order YSL to halt production of all red soled shoes.

This isn't the first time the footwear legend has become annoyed at other labels using his trademark colour - in 2007, the label sued US brand Oh Deer! after it replicated his famous red sole.

Christian Louboutin has launched an appeal against the court's d

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Christian Louboutin has launched an appeal against the court's decision not to grant an injunction stopping Yves Saint Laurent from producing red-soled shoes - but a verdict may not be passed until 2012. The shoe label filed its first brief to the Court of Appeal in Manhattan on Monday with the hopes of protecting its trademark red soles, whilst YSL's representatives have not yet filed the expected counter-suit.

"All the briefs from both sides are on a schedule that the Court of Appeals agreed with, to wit: all done and in before the end of the year," Louboutin's lawyer told WWD. "Considering what is at stake, it is probably fair to assume a ruling sometime in early spring, if not earlier."

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added weight to Christian Louboutin's red soles fight, by filing its own brief arguing that a colour - like the blue of its famous Tiffany boxes - can be trademarked and shouldn't be allowed to be copied.

"We are enormously pleased that Tiffany has weighed in," Louboutin's lawyer told WWD. "Tiffany has not only agreed with our arguments, but it also put forth arguments that strengthened the case and made the point that the [earlier] decision should be reversed."

"Tiffany is not taking sides in this dispute," Tiffany's lawyer was careful to add. "We are only trying to assure that this area of the law is not disturbed by an overbroad decision in the lower court."

YSL's use of the red sole caused "irreparable harm"

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but some things don't change, as the Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Louboutin red sole fight rumbles on.
YSL filed an appellate brief in late December - within the federal court of appeals deadline - in response to Christian Louboutin's appeal of the court ruling in October. YSL maintains that the court's original judgement - that Christian Louboutin should not be allowed to trademark the colour red - should be upheld and that Louboutin failed to show that YSL's use of the red sole caused "irreparable harm" to its business.

A woman who buys red shoes is doing so for a reason

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"A woman who buys red shoes is doing so for a reason," the brief argues. "Red shoes have a particular meaning to her, and to others, that cannot be supplied or even approximated by shoes of a different colour. Given the substantial creativity involved in both fashion design and fashion consumption, courts should not lightly allow one particular competitor to monopolise particular fashion submarkets."

The case, which began in April 2010, may not be settled for months to come.

Christian Louboutin trademark red soles suffered another blow

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Christian Louboutin has suffered another blow to its attempt to protect its red soles trademark, as a group of eminent law professors has sided with YSL. The academics - from some of the US's most famous law schools - have filed an amicus brief with the Federal Court of Appeals in Manhattan urging the court not to allow Louboutin to "monopolise" the colour, WWD reports. The appeal "should be rejected in order to preserve freedom of innovation and competition," the group stated

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