All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 23
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Specsavers has said that it will not pass Ireland's 2...
Specsavers has said that it will not pass Ireland's 2 percent VAT hike on to its customers in the country, where it has 39 stores
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The Advertising Standards Authority in the U.K. has ruled that...
The Advertising Standards Authority in the U.K. has ruled that Specsavers must not air two national ads anymore. Both of the ads, out last year, urged customers to save a specific amount of money on contact lenses by switching from Boots to Specsavers. Boots complained, saying that Specsavers was citing ...
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Signet Armorlite's license agreement with Kodak will remain intact, despite...
Signet Armorlite's license agreement with Kodak will remain intact, despite the recent announcement that Eastman Kodak has declared bankruptcy. Essilor of America, Signet Armorlite's parent company, told VMail that it will continue to produce, distribute and sell Kodak Lens products. All of those activities are integrated into the operations of ...
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The Swiss optician Marc-Etienne Berdoz has asked a court to...
The Swiss optician Marc-Etienne Berdoz has asked a court to order the television channel TSR to remove from its website the findings of an inquiry that ranked Berdoz Optic fifth among the best-priced opticians in the country. The Swiss newspaper 24 Heures reports that Berdoz argued that the whole purpose ...
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Since Dec. 10, cadmium, a bluish-white toxic metallic element related...
Since Dec. 10, cadmium, a bluish-white toxic metallic element related to zinc and sometimes found in zinc ore, will no longer be authorized in jewelry in the European Union above a level of 0.01 percent of the contents. The new regulation, UE 494/2011, does not specifically mention eyewear, but Certottica, ...
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A coalition of British groups including the College of Optometrists,...
A coalition of British groups including the College of Optometrists, the Optical Confederation and the Royal National Institute of Blind People has come up with a strategy designed to improve public eye health. The strategy, available at www.college-optometrists.org/opticalstrategy, includes training more ophthalmic public health experts, improving data and evidence for ...
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The U.K. has closed a loophole in VAT regulations for...
The U.K. has closed a loophole in VAT regulations for products that come from the Channel Islands, which includes a small number of contact lenses destined for Boots Opticians. The chain has said that it will absorb any additional costs, however, keeping the prices for customers the same. Boots will ...
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The Federation of Manufacturing Opticians (FMO) in the U.K. has...
The Federation of Manufacturing Opticians (FMO) in the U.K. has published a brochure listing all the benefits that members enjoy, including discounts on updated reports about the national and international standards that they must comply with
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An appeals court in Paris has backed a previous court...
An appeals court in Paris has backed a previous court ruling that Aoyama has engaged in counterfeiting by selling eyeglasses under the Twin name, especially over the internet, and by registering the Twin brand name all over the European Union. The court confirmed the rights held on the Twin-FX 5 ...
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CooperVision's recall of some lots of Avaira Toric contact lenses...
CooperVision's recall of some lots of Avaira Toric contact lenses has been expanded to include limited lots of Avaira Sphere lenses as well. CooperVision identified certain lots of the spheric lenses that did not meet its updated quality requirements due to the level of a silicone oil residue. The Avaira ...
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In a new report, the European Parliament is calling for...
In a new report, the European Parliament is calling for eye exams every 10 years for all drivers of cars and motorcycles, increasing the frequency to once every five years for those over 65. The report, “Own Initiative,” noted that 35,000 people die on European roads every year, and that ...
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CooperVision is recalling some lots of its Avaira Toric contact...
CooperVision is recalling some lots of its Avaira Toric contact lenses when they were found to have a residue that could cause temporary hazy vision. The company is resolving the issue and inventories should be back to normal by Dec. 1. Avaira Toric lenses made up less than 1 percent ...
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Police in Pennsylvania are investigating the apparent homicide of Jonathan...
Police in Pennsylvania are investigating the apparent homicide of Jonathan Balester, a former president of the whole laboratory Balester Optical Company. The 56-year-old was found dead in his home on May 26. His work in the optical industry included stints at Main Optical and Bausch + Lomb. His sister Heather ...
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Euromcontact has published some of the results of the CLEER...
Euromcontact has published some of the results of the CLEER Project, conducted between June 2008 and December 2009 to provide data that would support a request to European authorities to regulate the supply of contact lenses, pointing out that cosmetic lenses should also be treated as medical devices. Based on ...
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Lens.com has filed a suit in District Court in Nevada,...
Lens.com has filed a suit in District Court in Nevada, accusing 1-800-Contacts of antitrust violations. Lens.com says that its competitor sought to achieve market dominance by using anticompetitive practices such as censoring or impeding customer information, manufacturing fictional trademark rights, and filing frivolous trademark infringement lawsuits against competitors.
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Ciba Vision has settled a complaint from Bausch + Lomb...
Ciba Vision has settled a complaint from Bausch + Lomb that its advertisements claimed, incorrectly, that its solutions were better at fighting Acanthamoeba than ReNu MultiPlus by Bausch + Lomb. Ciba Vision will stop running the ads, which were based on research that was published in the Journal of Clinical ...
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A Spanish study confirms the need for better vision correction...
A Spanish study confirms the need for better vision correction for safer driving, which has been expressed to European authorities by Eurom 1, the European optical industry association. The study found out that 24 percent of the people who drive a car, or a total of 6 million Spaniards, have ...
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The European federation of optical industries, Eurom 1, has launched...
The European federation of optical industries, Eurom 1, has launched a new internet portal, www.eurom1.org. The site was vigorously promoted by the federation's chairman, Vittorio Tabacchi. Eurom gathers seven national associations of manufacturers of optical lenses, frames and equipment for opticians. The countries represented are France, Italy, Germany, the U.K., ...
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On March 22, the Danish Maritime and Commercial Court settled...
On March 22, the Danish Maritime and Commercial Court settled the case between opticians Louis Nielsen and Synoptik – initiated by Synoptik in 2009 due to an advertisement war – as a tie. The court decided that both sides infringed upon the marketing law and that Louis Nielsen illegally used ...
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Marchon3D will be getting two new U.S. patents for its...
Marchon3D will be getting two new U.S. patents for its circular polarized 3D eyewear. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved two applications related to protecting the “innovative curved lenses” used for viewing 3D technology, Marchon3D said. One patent application protects the company's thermoformed 3D lenses, with a polarizing layer ...
