SYDNEY — Adidas sued the Australian label White Fox in the Federal Court, arguing that clothes sold with four parallel stripes are deceptively similar to the three-stripe mark the German company has held in Australia since 1957.

Adidas told the court it had asked White Fox to stop selling and advertising the clothes since March and that the Sydney company refused. Lawyers for Adidas said White Fox, in advertising and selling the four-stripe garments, had the "intention to trade off our reputation." The statement of claim says the three-stripe design has a "substantial and valuable reputation" in Australia. It says White Fox's designs are "substantially identical with or otherwise deceptively similar" to Adidas, and that the ads are "drawing an........

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