Today, there are news related to shoe circles on Weibo hot search:
It is reported that Nike sued Adidas for plagiarism. At the same time, Nike is asking the U.S. International Trade Commission to block the import of a number of Adidas sneakers, including a joint series with Stella McCartney and Pharrel Williams.
Nike believes that Adi's Primeknit violated his own Flyknit. In its complaint filed on December 8, Nike said Adidas had 49 shoes that used PrimeKnit technology, which infringed six of Nike's patents. In this regard, Adi said that the company is analyzing the complaint and will defend Adidas against these allegations, and stressed that Primeknit technology comes from years of research.
It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that Adidas and Nike have matched these two upper technologies. For several years, the two brands have been denouncing and suing each other against these two upper technologies. Nike's this time is also equivalent to a continuation of the previous incident appeal.
Last year, Adidas also tried to accuse Nike of two patents in the U.S. Federal Circuit Appeals Court, and believed that Nike Flyknit copied its own Primeknit, but in the end the court ruled invalid and the appeal was unsuccessful.
Looking back at the beginning of Nike and Adi, these two technologies,
Basically around two pairs of sports running shoes:
Nike Flyknit Trainer
Since its launch in 2012, FK Trainer has been sought after by many celebrities. At the same time, as the originator of Nike's woven running shoes, it set the tone for a series of Flyknit casual running shoes such as Lü Bu later. It is a typical example of the debut of Nike FK shoes.
adidas Ultra Boost
UB debuted in 2015 and instantly gained a large number of fans with its comfortable foot feel and advanced styling in the field of sports running shoes. With the blessing of boost technology, the adjective of stepping on the sense of is almost out of the circle.
As a milestone that breaks through the barriers in the field of functional running shoes and has the attributes of fashion wearing, Ultra Boost has almost dominated the sports running shoe market after its advent, and has given Nike a great impact with shoes such as NMB.
To sum up, both pairs of sneakers are shining in the field of upper technology. After bringing consumers to the upper foot sports running shoes, they feel the unprecedented upper attachment and comfort. Flyknit, as a pioneer in mesh weaving technology, provides a prototype and even direction of upper technology. Primeknit is a product that has been intensively studied after the weaving process has matured...
And about these two pairs of shoes,
There is a man who must be talked about:
That's our grandfather in Nanjing, Kanye
There is no doubt that the explosion of FK Trainer and UB shoes is closely related to Kanye's upper feet in life and even activities. It is not an exaggeration to say that the two shoes were brought to fire by Kanye.
Kanye has been wearing the FK Trainer frequently since he owned it, and is particularly fond of its Oreo color scheme. And UB is after Ye's foot, let a group of sneaker lovers realize that running shoes can still be worn like this? At the same time, it laid the groundwork for his Yeezy Boost series that later ran away from Adi and stood on its own.
The YZY series continues to innovate, and the frequent reproduction of models such as 350, 500, 700 and so on is indeed to make fans gradually lose interest, and the reaction is also exhaustive in the sneaker market.
For some of the new designs, Kanye is still at the forefront, and the polarized evaluation makes everyone love and hate.
In the near future, yeezy's basketball shoes will be on the market, combined with the diss between the above two brands to taste is still quite interesting:
YEEZY BSKTBL KNIT
As the second basketball shoe product of the YZY series, it is still quite a big change compared to the first generation. After retaining a certain midsole boost structure, outsole and butt ring wrapping, the entire upper was overhauled. It is made of full PK weaving, and a sweater fabric-like sock cover is used at the upper. At the same time, Adi's traditional fork-type TPU is built into the midsole.
This makes the whole pair of sneakers improve a certain degree of comfort and even practical performance compared with the original generation. That is, the appearance value is indeed average, and the actual combat performance is not guaranteed.
It's hard not to look at this new pair of YZY basketball boots without being reminiscent of...
Nike Hyperdunk 2016 Elite
Looking at George's HD series,
Looking at today's signature shoe production, it is inevitable that people will sigh...
Familiar woven configuration, familiar coil sock covers. The two brands accused each other of plagiarism, as if it was not unreasonable, impossible to study, and no trace to be found.
Looking back at the collision between the two brands in the past 17 years, with the premise of PK and FK two upper technology, we have brought CE2017 PK and HD2017 FK, the top flagship combat team shoes.
A few years passed, and the two brands were in disrepair. This is a healthy competition, and speaking about the product is conducive to the diss of enthusiasts. Now it has evolved into a plagiarism diss farce that is only seen on paper and only in the contract treaty...