LONDON: Luxury shoemaker Manolo Blahnik announced on Tuesday it had won a 22-year legal battle in China over a trademark dispute after the East Asian country's top court ruled in its favor.

The dispute started when a competitor started calling itself "Manolo & Blahnik" in 1999, a move approved by Chinese authorities a year later.

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