{"id":420094,"date":"2014-12-09T18:05:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T23:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=420094"},"modified":"2022-09-17T13:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T18:17:30","slug":"nike-suing-former-designers-left-adidas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/nike-suing-former-designers-left-adidas\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike is suing former designers who left for adidas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nike is suing Marc Dolce, Denis Dekovic, and Mark Miner &#8211; the three powerful designers who left Nike to work for adidas earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>SEE: Three Top Designers Leave Nike for Adidas<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/12\/09\/nike-adidas-lawsuit-idUSL1N0TT1OH20141209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AP<\/a> story,\u00a0Nike is filing a lawsuit against the three former Nike designers that claims at least $10 million in damages. \u00a0<strong>Nike<\/strong> said the former designers, <strong>Marc Dolce<\/strong>, <strong>Mark Miner<\/strong>, and senior design director <strong>Denis Dekovic<\/strong>, started consulting for adidas while still working at the company, violating their non-compete agreements.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mceItemHidden\">In the suit, Nike alleges that Dolce, Dekovic, and Miner<\/span><span class=\"mceItemHidden\">\u00a0pitched the idea of the <span class=\"hiddenSpellError\">adidas<\/span> Brooklyn design studio in April, as well as\u00a0promised to bring with them\u00a0info and intel of Nike&#8217;s design plans for the next several\u00a0years. \u00a0Also in the suit, Nike claims that\u00a0<span class=\"mceItemHidden\">&#8220;<\/span><span id=\"articleText\">the designers copied sensitive design and business documents from their computers, including drawings for an unreleased shoe made for one of Nike&#8217;s sponsored athletes&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep you posted as this story develops.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: More info on the case: Nike sues designers Marc Dolce, Denis Dekovic, Mark Miner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nike is suing Marc Dolce, Denis Dekovic, and Mark Miner &#8211; the three powerful designers who left Nike to work&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":420095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2,1224791],"tags":[1225462,1221302,1213001,1221303,1225736],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nike is suing former designers who left for adidas - Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nike has filed a lawsuit against former designers who left Nike to go to Adidas. 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