For a fake watch from Gucci, a businesswoman from Pushkin was fined 15 thousand
The court fined an individual entrepreneur from Pushkin for illegal use of the Gucci trademark. The business woman, according to experts, as a result of her activities caused damage in the amount of more than one million rubles. However, by court order, a woman should pay only 15 thousand.
According to the press service of the city prosecutor’s office, the justice of the peace at court plot No. 180 issued a verdict in a criminal case against the defendant, who from December 2010 to May 2011 repeatedly illegally used someone else’s trademark.
It was found that a 47-year-old resident of Pushkin, Nina Lysenko, on December 22, 2010 in the trading hall on Church Street, where she was holding the outlet, made a test purchase, during which wrist watches marked with the Gucci trademark were identified and seized . The woman was notified of the inadmissibility of using someone else's trademark.
However, a few months later, during the second test purchase, a similar product was re-identified.
According to the expert’s conclusion, the samples of watches marked with Gucci trademark in the amount of 66 pieces presented for examination had signs of counterfeiting: lack of company packaging, documents confirming the origin of the goods, numbering of individual parts of the mechanisms. The wrist watches imitated industrial designs of the owners of the Gucci trademark, since they did not contain the characteristic features that are inherent in genuine products. As a result of repeated actions to illegally use someone else's trademark, Lysenko violated the exclusive rights of copyright holders and caused them material damage in the amount of 1 million 320 thousand rubles.
The court found the entrepreneur guilty and sentenced him to a fine of 15 thousand rubles. Counterfeit products destroyed.
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