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The European Coalition for Vision (ECV) and the Coalition's manifesto...
The European Coalition for Vision (ECV) and the Coalition's manifesto for the elections to the European Parliament were launched last Feb. 4 at the parliament's seat in Strasbourg. The manifesto, presented by a member of the European Parliament, Marian Harkin, calls on the European Parliament to use its significant powers ...
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CooperVision will be a lead sponsor of the first IACLE...
CooperVision will be a lead sponsor of the first IACLE Contact Lens Educator of the Year Awards, a program initiated by the International Association of Contact Lens Educators (IACLE) to recognize contact lens educators worldwide for their innovations and achievements in the field. The awards will be presented at the ...
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The creditors of Sover, an Italian eyewear firm that recently...
The creditors of Sover, an Italian eyewear firm that recently filed for bankruptcy protection, have been summoned to appear in a court in Belluno at 9.30 am on Thursday Feb. 13, to agree to a settlement of their debts based on the proposals made by the company last Oct. 25. ...
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The U.K.'s Federation of Manufacturing Opticians (FMO) is inviting for...
The U.K.'s Federation of Manufacturing Opticians (FMO) is inviting for the first time companies outside the U.K. to become members of the organization. Membership had been limited until now to British firms and to the British subsidiaries of foreign companies. Members can belong to any of FMO's focus groups for ...
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In a “non-final office action” at the end of October...
In a “non-final office action” at the end of October in response to a request for re-examination filed by Ocuco last May 21, the U.S. Patent Office recommended that all the 20 claims in Seiko Epson's patent 6,019,470 should be cancelled unless the Japanese company comes out with convincing counter-arguments. ...
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A research project carried out by Allensbach in Germany shows...
A research project carried out by Allensbach in Germany shows that 90 percent of all people wearing glasses in Germany have never tried contact lenses. The Kuratorium für Gutes Sehen (KGS) in Berlin launched a new video on YouTube and on its own website, kgs-info.de, to show opticians the advantages ...
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Italy's Commissione Difesa Vista (CDV), which promotes vision correction among...
Italy's Commissione Difesa Vista (CDV), which promotes vision correction among the Italian people, recently performed over 600 free eye tests on the occasion of the “G! Come giocare” toy fair in Milan, held on Nov. 22-24, and the results were rather alarming. It found 26 children suffering from hyperopia, 44 ...
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Professor Brien Holden, the outgoing executive chair of Optometry Giving...
Professor Brien Holden, the outgoing executive chair of Optometry Giving Sight (OGS), has been presented with the organization's inaugural Humanitarian Award, in recognition of his contribution in support of global efforts to eliminate avoidable blindness and impaired vision and reduce the disability, poverty and lack of opportunity associated with vision ...
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VMail reports that Essilor has settled a suit launched last...
VMail reports that Essilor has settled a suit launched last Feb. 22 in a Texas court against Younger Optics, Indizen Optical Technologies (IOT) and VSP Optics Group, which claimed that they had been infringing on a U.S. patent 6149271, covering progressive addition lenses and processes to make them. IOT, a ...
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Pascale Rouhier will be the new secretary general of Euromcontact,...
Pascale Rouhier will be the new secretary general of Euromcontact, the European association of the leading contact lens companies, starting next Jan. 1. She will replace Anne-Marie Wolters, who is retiring. The new secretary general, who is 36 years old, has been a consultant and secretary general for various other ...
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Eyecessorize has recently surpassed the 100,000 “likes” marks on its...
Eyecessorize has recently surpassed the 100,000 “likes” marks on its Facebook page (facebook.com/eyecessorize). Eyecessorize is The Vision Council's campaign to increase awareness of the fashion and lifestyle aspects of eyewear in the U.S. The Eyecessorize Facebook page has been growing steadily since its launch, in October 2008. During this year ...
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Optic 2000 has been voted the best retail chain among...
Optic 2000 has been voted the best retail chain among opticians in France for 2013. This result emerged from a study that Q & A Research and Consultancy has conducted for six consecutive years on more than 28,000 consumers in France. Optic 2000 beat Alain Afflelou, Atol, Générale d'Optique, Grand ...
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Anfao, the Italian optical industry association, has oprganized an intensive...
Anfao, the Italian optical industry association, has oprganized an intensive promotional program to help its members enter new and emerging markets internationally, as the sector is mostly holding up thanks to exports. In the first half of 2013, the sector's total exports grew by 5.4 percent in value compared with ...
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The German opticians' association, ZVA, has reported that the biggest...
The German opticians' association, ZVA, has reported that the biggest German marketing group for ophthalmic optics, MDA, filed a petition of bankruptcy at the end of August. At the same time, another German cooperative of independent opticians with a common online shop, Brillebitte, decided to shut down its business by ...
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A bill proposed by the European Union on using a...
A bill proposed by the European Union on using a ‘made in' label on products is worrying the German optical industry association, Spectaris. It would require the place of the main manufacture rather than where the article was designed or finished to be given. The law would be a bureaucratic ...
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Cirillo Marcolin, who was re-elected president of the Italian eyewear...
Cirillo Marcolin, who was re-elected president of the Italian eyewear industry association (Anfao) and Mido in July, has finished his mandate of president of Fiamp, an Italian industry federation that group's Anfao and other associations dealing with shoes, handbags, jewelry, furs and other personal fashion accessories. Astrid Galimberti, managing director ...
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France is not the only country where opticians are said...
France is not the only country where opticians are said to be making windfall profits. ZVA, the German optical retailers' federation, has criticized a highly publicized article in a leading German magazine, Der Stern, which suggests that some opticians are overcharging their customers. It alleges that they generate gross margins ...
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Ocuco has filed a new request with the U.S. Patent...
Ocuco has filed a new request with the U.S. Patent Office in relation to technological claims for the development of back-surface free-form progressive lenses. The company had already asked to review a patent by Seiko Epson. This time it is questioning the patent numbered 6,078,713 obtained by Carl Zeiss Vision ...
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The French Senate passed new guidelines on July 24 for...
The French Senate passed new guidelines on July 24 for the reimbursement of eye care expenses by the mutual insurance funds as a complement to those of the social security system, authorizing them to choose the opticians that they want to work with. Some of the guidelines must still be ...
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Google has started an administrative procedure against Glass Up, an...
Google has started an administrative procedure against Glass Up, an Italian start-up based in Modena, over the use of the “Glass Up” brand name, which the American giant considers to be too similar to the name of its own Google Glass product. The Glass Up device, created in 2011 by ...
