Learned from Attorney-at-Law Jason Xinyu Li from Shanghai Representative Office, Stein Shostak Shostak Pollack & O’Hara, LLP, US Customs detained 9,017 faked vanities at Detroit port on May30. Customs declared that the outside image of “ee” on those vanities are very similar with “GG & Design” brand image of Gucci, almost can’t be identified.
Those batches of vanities were imported from China to a local merchant via Detroit. US Customs inspected those goods in the latter of September in 2006.On May30,US Customs detained all goods under the name of trademark infringement.
Attorney Jason explained that, in allusion to those intellectual property rights infringement administrative penalty law cases, US Customs calculated fine amount based on the proposal retail price of infringed goods (MSRP). While the proposal retail price of international famed brands such as Gucci are all incredible high. The case shows again that if the case was misconducted, it will result in bringing to ruin for high fined amount to those importer, manufacturers and other related persons.
Intellectual property rights protection is the focus for US Customs in recent years. Recently, Sino-US signed “A memo about strengthening Intellectual property rights law enforcement cooperation”. According to the Memo, two countries will exchange law enforcement situation and cases information at fixed period, namely once six months. Chinese export enterprises shall pay more attention on this situation.
