Victoria Beckham settles trademark against Sydney 'VB' skincare company

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Former Spice Girl and fashion designer Victoria Beckham has settled a trademark dispute with a Sydney-based skincare company over the use of the letters 'VB'.

A trademark battle between former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and a Sydney-based skincare company over the letters "VB" has been settled.Her team took issue with the use of a "slim brunette" on VB Skinlab's websiteThe 46-year-old fashion designer opposed the registration of two marks proposed by VB Skinlab, which were published in a journal in 2018.

Beckham was appealing a decision by IP Australia, which in March found she had not established any grounds of opposition and the two VB marks should proceed to registration. By Friday, Judge Julia Baird made orders dismissing the appeal by consent, noting parties had agreed to terms of settlement. In the initial decision, IP Australia delegate Nicholas Smith described Beckham as "an individual from the United Kingdom who is a well-known figure in the fields of music … and fashion".

 

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Who cares...?

she looks more like a grim reaper day by day...

How is she going to over come the VB Carlton United Beer tradmark

Oh no... this is going to get personal. You don’t go after our famous icon victoriabeckham

VB identifies as a beer to me.

Now she’s going after Victoria Bitter.

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