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Finally!

We can now all definitively put this red sole brouhaha behind us.

What we thought was essentially over about two months ago is now 100% no doubt about it over for sure, as a Manhattan federal district court entered a final order on Thursday dismissing the Christian Louboutin lawsuit against Yves Saint Laurent.

The earlier ruling stated

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Sacre rouge!

Yves Saint Laurent is waving the metaphorical red flag and dropping their lawsuit against Christian Louboutin!

The surprising decision comes almost a month after a court ruled that Monsieur Louboutin's red outsole trademark

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A New York federal court gave Christian Louboutin's red-sole trademark the green light on Wednesday, bringing an end to a year-long battle with Yves Saint Laurent.

In case you've been living under a rock for the past 16 months, Louboutin first sued YSL last April, claiming

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Let the mudslinging begin!

Christian Louboutin launched a verbal attack against Yves Saint Laurent in France's Libération newspaper last month and he didn't hold back.

In the article titled "Pinault doesn’t care about plagiarizing my red sole", Louboutin believes the fashion house's parent company PPR is being hypocritical:

"I find it most incredible that a group like PPR would take the risk of defending itself as a plagiarist. They claim to fight against counterfeiting and plagiarism of which they are victims and yet behave like this."

YSL's legal eagles were quick to fire back at Louboutin's claims, saying:

"YSL's use of red outsoles is not plagiarism of anyone else’s design. YSL is one of the most celebrated and original fashion houses in the world, and it has been using red outsoles to give life to its own venerated style traditions since long before Louboutin was even designing shoes."

The case went to an appeals judge last month and Louboutin expects a ruling by the summer.

[Image via Flashpoint/WENN.]

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The battle of the red sole is before three Appeals Court judges now.

To recap, Christian Louboutin is suing Yves Saint Laurent for also using a red sole.

Anyone in the fashion industry knows Louboutins always stand out in ads, television shows, etc. because their bright red soles.

In

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Law professors have come to the defense of Yves Saint Laurent in the Christian Louboutin red-soled shoe saga.

On Tuesday 11 professors filed an amicus brief with the Federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit saying Louboutin's request to trademark a single color should be rejected because it goes against the doctrine of aesthetic functionality.

In a nutshell the aesthetic of functionality prevents companies from "using trademark as a kind of back door to perpetual patentlike protection for attractive but non-novel product features".

The professors

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Christian Louboutin is getting some support from the color red's biggest rival: blue!

On Tuesday, Tiffany & Co. filed a brief supporting the shoe maker's quest to prove to Judge Victor Marrero is wrong and it is possible to have a trademark on the color red.

If anyone should know about trademarking a color it's Tiffany. In 1998 the company registered its signature Tiffany blue trademark for packaging.

A lawyer for Tiffany & Co.

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