Remember the Silk Market Appeal Case/Landlord Case about which I blogged at the exact same date, but then in 2006? Read here. Well, a lot has happened in the mean time:
The Beijing Silk Market (before known as Silk Street or Silk Alley) vendors of counterfeit Burberry, Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Prada products, have again overstepped the boundaries of accepted behaviour. After a long history of infringing these luxury brand’s trademarks, design-patents and copyrights, the market management organisation entered into an anti-counterfeiting agreement with the coalition of luxury brands, last December (2008). The agreement was that the market manager would close down a stall for two weeks if is caught infringing intellectual property rights of the luxury brands coalition. If the infringing vendor is paying 5000 renminbi to the coalition in the first three days, the ban is reduced to one week.
So far, so good. But now the market management has sued the Chinese law firm IntellecPro which has been acting for the coalition at the Beijing Chaoyang People’s Court for lost earnings after being shot down temporarily. They might think the best defense is offence.
Thank you Bob for your comment,The point I want to make here is that the alleged infringers are intimidating lawyers, which could never be a good idea. And by the way, lawyers also need food.Cheers,Danny FriedmannIP Dragon
Easy for law firms to say you are copying my IPs. But there people need food. Show some solidarity otherwise it is hypocritical. Better copying then perishing.BOb