A Couple In Ningbo Was Caught Selling Fake "UGG" On Taobao.

The winter of 2010 is very cold and warm. Snow boots It has become more popular.

Dong Mou and Li Mou are a couple of highly educated couples who open shop in Beilun, Ningbo.

Since last November, they have been marking the production of snow boots from small factories in Wenzhou, Zhejiang and Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. UGG The trademark's snow boots are, of course, not genuine.

What surprised the couple was that after the snow boots came in, the weather began to turn cold. The blue moon Boutique House, which was opened on Taobao, was very hot. On average, it could sell more than 100 pairs of snow boots every day, earning 10-20 yuan for each pair.

Li said that they knew that the authentic UGG brand snow boots should be more than 1000 yuan and a pair, and the highest price they came in would be less than 300 yuan.

"Because UGG brand boots are popular in the market and sales are good, so they are fraudulent. famous brand " Li said that in order not to be discovered by Taobao, they were selling snow shoes with counterfeit registered trademarks. When Dong Mou handled the pictures, he covered up the UGG brand and uploaded it to Taobao online sales.

In January 10th, Beilun District Public Security Bureau received a report. On the 11 day, 1845 pairs of snow boots labeled "UGG" were seized on the premises of Dong Mou and Li Dian online shop.

In just two months, the suspect Dongmou and Rio have sold 4591 pairs of snow boots labeled "UGG" on Taobao online, with a sales amount of 605 thousand yuan.

Recently, Dong Mou and Li Mou were prosecuted by Ningbo Beilun District Procuratorate on suspicion of selling counterfeit registered trademarks.

This pair of college educated couples never dreamed that selling snow boots on Taobao would bring them to jail.

The prosecutor explained that Dongmou husband and wife sold snow shoes trademark "UGG" three letters in the middle of "G" larger, while the official UGG snow boots trademark in the same size of three letters. According to the opinions on Several Issues concerning the application of the law in handling criminal cases involving infringing intellectual property rights, there are only slight differences between registered trademarks, such as typeface, letter size or vertical arrangement of words, and registered trademarks. Changing the spacing between registered trademarks, letters and numbers will not affect the marked characteristics of registered trademarks. It can be regarded as "trademark identical to its registered trademark". Accordingly, the Beilun District procuratorate found that the snow boots sold by Dongmou husband and wife were counterfeited registered trademarks.