Yamaha case triggers the high damages for trademark infringement

June 19, 2007 at 12:08 am · Filed under Archives, Intellectual Property

The case took five years but just ended in a landmark decision by the Supreme People’s Court in China awarding Yahama Motor $1.1 million, the highest amount of damages ever awarded in China in a trademark dispute involving a foreign company.

The Chinese company….registered a shell company in Japan’s remote Ishikawa prefecture in 2000 under the same three characters used by Yamaha to render its name in Chinese. This Japanese shell company then signed a licensing agreement with Zhejiang Huatian, allowing it to market its scooters in China under that name. Zhejiang Huatian went a step further by printing Yamaha’s name in English letters on its scooters.

http://www.chinalawblog.com/chinalawblog/2007/06/china_court_kil.html

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