Small boutique owner wins trademark row with Zara

I'm glad the small business owner won the case.

> Mrs Kotrri said she had also been in contact with more than 10 other small business owners who had been contacted by the fashion company asking them to rebrand because of similarities with their names.

An earlier BBC report on the dispute (from 30 April 2022) states:

> Another company locked in the same dispute with Zara is Tara Sartoria, which sells a small range of hand-made silk products made by disadvantaged women in Indonesia and Vietnam.

> The business, which has one full-time office employee, donates 10% of its profits to help women start their own micro-businesses and attend university.

> Its Vietnamese owner Tara Nguyen contacted the BBC to say she had also been sent a legal letter from the fashion giant which she found "grossly unjust".

> Ms Nguyen said: "Going against a massive corporation like Zara/Inditex is a terrifying position to be in.

> Changing all of my branding, logo, packaging, etcetera would be a fatal blow to my business, and unfortunately would derail my mission to help otherwise impoverished women stand on their own and benefit their families and villages."

> She said replying to the notice of opposition sent in November 2021 had cost her business "almost all of our available resources".