There’s an international legal fight playing out over the use of a blue-and-white check pattern. The pattern of horizontal and vertical squares is actually trademarked by a mattress company in Sweden.

Some iconic patterns are inextricably linked to the brands that created them. If a wallpaper designer passed off a series of prancing zebras as their own idea, Scalamandré would certainly have ...

Owners Teddie Garrigan (left) and Courtney Garrigan stand with their blue-and-white checked sofa that is the subject of a trademark case at Coco & Dash in Dallas. Elias Valverde II / Staff ...

In an unusual trademark case concerning a blue-and-white checked pattern used on bed linen, the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court has ruled in favour of Hästens Sengar AB, which sued the ...