Sep
Chinese police recently busted a counterfeiting scheme in Shanghai, one that has ensnared at least one of luxury brand Louis Vuitton’s own employees. In August, authorities in Shanghai arrested dozens of individuals and seized an array of equipment, textiles, and fake Louis Vuitton bags in connection with a sweeping – and particularly upscale – counterfeit manufacturing operation that boasted the cooperation of a Louis Vuitton sales associate, who repeatedly sold off the newest bags to the group in order to enable it to get a head-start on making the illegal offerings.
Aug
Amazon's selection of products on the shelves is very rigorous. In recent years, it has emphasized the importance of trademarks and patents to the products. Once it encounters an infringement, Amazon will first remove the suspected infringing products.
Aug
Recently, the Beijing Internet Court made a first-instance judgment in the case of TOGO sharing cars using the image copyright of "Peppa Pig" and determined that the defendant Beijing Tuge Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Tuge Company) infringed the two plaintiffs' right of reproduction and information network transmission. The defendant should immediately stop the infringement and compensate for economic losses and reasonable expenses totaling RMB 500,000.
Aug
"In the case that the product has been ordered by the court for patent infringement, the subsequent production of air-conditioning products by the infringer still uses our patented technology, and the company can only sue again." Under the competitor’s knowing violation, Wen Kuangyu, director of the Intellectual Property Office of Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai, chose to take a tough line, but the problems of low compensation in patent litigation and difficulty in offering evidence caused him a headache.
Jul
Groupon has been ordered to pay technology company IBM $82.5 million for wilful patent infringement.
Jul
In KTV copyright cases, the court used to mostly adopt the method of statutory compensation to determine the amount of damages. Is there a more accurate calculation method? The author thinks that it is an advancement in judicial technology to calculate the damages by taking the license fees as the plaintiff's actual loss instead of only applying the statutory compensation. In this article, the author refers to the "Guidance on Damages Compensation" issued by the Beijing Higher People's Court in April this year. Taking the case of China Audiovisual Copyright Collective Management Association (hereinafter referred to as Audiovisual Copyright Association) sued H Company as an example to explain in detail the practice of calculating the damage compensation as the actual loss of the license fee.
