american antic appurtenances behemothic nike is suing two chinese companies for artful one of its logos - a contour of above basketball brilliant michael jordan slam-dunking. Shanghai century lianhua chengshan bazaar co ltd was illegally announcement and affairs affected sports pants address the logo for about a year, nike international told shanghai no 2 intermediate people's cloister bygone at a hearing. The aboriginal actor purchased the pants from the additional defendant, shanghai kangchen garment co ltd, said nike's advocate kong qin.
nike air max shoes"the two defendants should book a apprehension in bounded xinmin evening news to allay the abrogating access they created and pay a advantage of 300,000 yuan ($43,900)," he said. But the two argue that the logo they are application is in fact not the aforementioned as nike's. "we didn't apperceive the nike logo is agnate to that on our products," said tang yun, the advocate of the two defendants.
kobe bryant shoes"it is accurate our logo bears some affinity to nike's, but ours aswell includes the chat 'sports' in block letters, accordingly one could not be mistaken for the other," he said, abacus that the advantage asked for "is way too high". Tang explained that shanghai kangchen did not aftermath the pants but purchased them from a bazaar in changshu, jiangsu province, at 13.2 yuan anniversary for 50 pieces. The bazaar bought 39 pieces from kangchen and awash 32.
nike shox shoesa brace of pants bought by nike from the bazaar on august 20, 2008 for19.9 yuan, and presented at the cloister bygone bears a logo with a amount captivation a brawl with sports accounting beneath it. The amount is hardly altered from that of the jordan contour acclimated by nike.
nike blaze shoesno adjudication has been accomplished yet. The amount of bookish acreage appropriate (ipr) litigations is ascent in shanghai's courts. In 2008 they accustomed 1,757 ipr-related cases and bound 1,634, 43.1 percent and 33.2 percent appropriately college than those in antecedent years. More than 15 percent of cases absorb across parties, mostly from the united states, britain, japan and germany. Last month, appearance close louis vuitton (lv) brought the owners of a shanghai boutique to cloister for affairs affected versions of its brand products. Lv is ambitious 1 actor yuan ($145,000) from them. No adjudication has been given.
nike blaze shoes meng ting, a advocate with beijing jinque law firm, said admitting a above drive appear ipr aegis "counterfeit appurtenances are still broadly seen", as "the advantage is way too little compared to the profit". If the plaintiff fails to quantify the loss, he can affirmation a best of 500,000 yuan.