{"id":79,"date":"2007-06-19T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.iipl.org.cn\/?p=79"},"modified":"2010-07-25T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T07:24:13","slug":"yamaha-case-triggers-the-high-damages-for-trademark-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wiki.iipl.org.cn\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Yamaha case triggers the high damages for trademark infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The case took five years but just ended in a landmark decision by the <a href=\"http:\/\/english.people.com.cn\/data\/organs\/court.html\">Supreme People&#8217;s Court<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n<p>The Chinese company&#8230;.registered a shell company in Japan&#8217;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&#8217;s name in English letters on its scooters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinalawblog.com\/chinalawblog\/2007\/06\/china_court_kil.html\">http:\/\/www.chinalawblog.com\/chinalawblog\/2007\/06\/china_court_kil.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case took five years but just ended in a landmark decision by the Supreme People&#8217;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&#8230;.registered a shell company in Japan&#8217;s remote Ishikawa prefecture in 2000 under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wiki.iipl.org.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wiki.iipl.org.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wiki.iipl.org.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.iipl.org.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.iipl.org.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.iipl.org.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.iipl.org.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wiki.iipl.org.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.iipl.org.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.iipl.org.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}