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Pen-maker sues over 'copy-write'
By Liu Li (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-06-08 06:24
Beijing's Xidan Shopping Centre agreed yesterday to pay compensation of
60,000 yuan (US$7,200) to the international pen-maker Parker for selling pirated
products.
The agreement, reached between the well-known department store and Parker Pen
(Shanghai) Ltd, was presided over by Beijing No 1 Intermediate People's Court
yesterday.
The shopping centre promised not to sell any pens in future that violated
Parker's trademark.
The shopping centre is just the latest of a number of retail outlets in the
capital that have been sued by Parker for selling counterfeit products.
Although the case revealed that the Xidan Shopping Centre had sold pirated
pens, it insisted in court that it was not responsible.
"The pen seller rented a shop in our department store, and provided legal
certificates to us," Chen Changling, a store worker, said yesterday at court.
"We had no idea that the store was selling counterfeit pens," she said.
However, Yuan Yifan, the lawyer representing Parker, said yesterday, "The
final agreement proved that the department store had violated the trademark
rights of Parker."
Sources with the store declined to comment on the agreement yesterday.
Parker Pen (Shanghai) initially asked for compensation of 300,000 yuan
(US$36,000) from the store in court.
"Our purpose was not merely to seek compensation. Parker aims to warn those
who infringe its trademark rights through legal action," Yuan told China Daily
yesterday.
He said Parker was satisfied with the result.
No compensation Parker has received from over 20 department stores in the
capital city for selling pirated pens this year has reached 10,000 yuan
(US$12,000), sources said.
Besides the Xidan Shopping Centre, Parker has also sued the Jinwuxing Market
at Haidian District People's Court for trademark infringement.
The market agreed last month to compensate the pen producer by paying 50,000
yuan (US$6,000).
(China Daily 06/08/2005 page3)
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