Read about how Australian's are responding to the trade marking of this generic term.

• Charity sued over ugg boot name
  Middletons Lawyers, a Melbourne-based company acting on behalf of Deckers Corporation, did not return The Sunday Telegraph's calls.
  
  
• Australian Prime Minister asked to help :
  Trade : Ugh boots
  
  
• From Australia's national current affairs program :
  Ugg boots: their citizenship under threat?
  
  
• From Theage.com.au :
  " Ugg boots are as Australian as the Kangaroo,... "
  
  
• From Just-style.com :
  Australia: Deckers Threatens To Sue Over 'UGG' Copyright
  

• From The Sunday Times :
  "Threatening to sue people who have manufactured footwear under the generic label of ugg boots for decades is a joke."
  
  
• The Australian, Australia's National Daily News :
  US ugg boot claim 'insulting'
  
  
• From the Herald Sun :
  "THEY'RE as much an Australian icon as the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Uluru."
  
  
• From Today Tonight :
  End of the Aussie ugg?
  
  
• From Today Tonight :
  Ugg boot boycott - "The sheepskin is flying in the great 'ugg boot' war."
  
  
• From The Herald Sun :
  Dash for booty spurs uggly war with ugg boots
  
  
• From the Blue Mountains Gazette :
  Boot war turns Uggly
  
  
• From Michael Organ, the Australian Greens member for the Wollongong-based seat of Cunningham in the House of Representatives :
  FREE TRADE? HUMBUG!
  
  
• From the Sunday Mail :
  Culture shock From TheAge.com :
  Ugg boot makers battle US giant
  
  
• From The Northern Daily Leader :
  "This just isn't right. Ugg boots originated in Australia after the bloke who first made them reckoned they were an ugly boot and they have been sold as Aussie Uggs since the year dot,"
  
  
• From the Christian-Forums.com :
  Save an Australian icon -The great Australian ugg / ug or ugh boot !!!!
  
  
• From the Independent.co.uk :
  "This year's must-have fashion footwear has kick-started an Uggly battle between an Australian cottage industry and a giant US corporation."
  
  
• From the BBC News U.K. edition :
  "After international trade disputes about everything from plastic bags to shiitake mushrooms, could woolly boots be next?"
  
  
• From the Wellington Times :
  How our boots lost their "ugg".
  
  
• From the Australian House of Representatives :
  Trade: UGG Boots
  
  
• From Bob Baldwin MP :
  Uggly Scenario for Aussie Icons  

In Australia, and many other countries as well, Ugg boots (also spelt ug and ugh) are a style of boots that has been used generically for well over a hundred years.  

"It's like registering the name sneakers – it's a generic term that everyone uses."

Needless to say that the recent threats and legal harassment from UGG Holdings Inc. and its parent company Deckers Outdoor Corporation has threatened the livelihood of small business owners in Australia and manufactures, some who have been making ugg boots since 1933. Many of the Australian public are now boycotting all of Deckers' other lines including Simple, Teva, and of course UGG Australia which are now made in China.