Foshan Enterprises Were Sentenced To Pay 80 Thousand Yuan For Selling Counterfeit "Levi' S" Brand Clothing.

The "Levi's" brand of Li Hui company has been established for more than 150 years, and has a high reputation both at home and abroad. In July 24th, the reporter learned from the people's Court of Chancheng District of Foshan that a garment company in Shunde District of Foshan city sold the fake "Levi's" brand jeans without authorization. Li Hui filed a lawsuit against the Chancheng court. The Chancheng court finally decided to judge the clothing company and its legal representative by the infringement of the exclusive right to use the registered trademark. The economic loss and reasonable cost of a compensation company in Europe amounted to RMB 80000 yuan.

Li Hui said in its court hearing that the company found that there was a sale of jeans by the company involved in the infringement of the exclusive rights of the company's registered trademark. In April 14, 2017, the law enforcement officers of the market supervision and Administration Bureau of Shunde District of Foshan city inspected the premises of the defendant, and found that the garment company had processed jeans with infringement marks without authorization since April 2017. There are as many as 18 infringing trademarks in each pair of jeans. According to the market supervision and Administration Bureau of Shunde District of Foshan, the company's behavior is a violation of the exclusive right to use registered trademarks.

Lihui company asked the court to decide that the clothing company and European company immediately destroyed the inventory of all the infringing goods with the trademark of Lihui company, and compensated 200 thousand yuan for economic losses, 5000 yuan for lawyers' fees, and a reasonable expenditure of 10 thousand yuan for investigation and evidence collection and travel expenses.

During the trial, a clothing company and legal representative of Foshan did not appear in court and did not provide evidence.

The court of Chancheng found that in connection with the relevant facts found in the spot photos and the administrative penalty decisions issued by the market supervision bureau, the infringement cases involving the clothing companies involved in the production cases infringed the right of exclusive use of the registered trademarks of the company. Taking into account the popularity of the registered trademarks of the company, the subjective fault of the company, the nature of the infringement, the scope of its influence, and the factors such as the reasonable expenses incurred by the company in order to stop the infringement and the lawyer's fees, the clothing company compensate the benefit loss company's economic loss and the reasonable cost of the total amount of RMB 80000 yuan.

Finally, the court decided that a garment company in Foshan should compensate the lien Hui company's economic losses and reasonable expenses for a total of 80000 yuan.