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Carrefour fined in China piracy case.
(From The Lawyer)
In the first high-profile piracy dispute between two Western companies in China, a Shanghai court has fined French retailer Carrefour GBP25,000 for selling fake Louis Vuitton handbags.
At fault was Carrefour's supplier policy, which the company's central management had delegated to individual branch supervisors. The judge blasted the procedure, criticising it for being so lax as to allow counterfeiters to sell products through the supermarket chain.
Carrefour sold the bags for around GBP3.60 each and claims it only sold three before realising they were fake.
Douglas Clark, a Lovells IP partner in Shanghai, said Carrefour is not the only Western vendor risking litigation in China. "A large number of foreign ...
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