Beats sued cottage dealers claim billions of dollars

Tencent Science and technology news, July 12, headset manufacturers beats to a number of Chinese fake sellers to sue, accusing them of infringement trademark rights, and demand compensation, the amount of compensation can reach billions of U.S. dollars. The Court of the northern Illinois State of the United States will accept the case. At the end of May this year, Apple announced a 3 billion dollar takeover of Beats, which is expected to be completed in a few weeks, when beats will officially become Apple's subsidiary. The legal action launched by Beats is aimed at cracking down on counterfeiters who sell online, stealing beats's commercial reputation, selling or providing unlicensed, counterfeit products with beats trademarks. The defendants created hundreds of or even thousands of counterfeit Internet stores and designed them to sell real beats products, but actually sold shoddy counterfeit beats products to unknown consumers, according to the lawsuit. Beats lawyers say the counterfeiters have sophisticated business practices that minimize the likelihood of being discovered by law enforcement agencies while maximizing profits. They will counterfeit beats products in small quantities through international express delivery, while camouflage the real quality of goods, reduce by the United States Customs and Border Inspection agency found danger. Beats estimates that the company's prosecution of these fake sales sites can reach a total of more than 135 billion dollars a year. In addition to requests for an import ban and a sales ban, Beats also asked the court to confiscate the profits from these counterfeit beats headphones. This figure is almost impossible to calculate accurately, but it could reach billions of dollars. In addition, Beats also asked to be compensated for 2 million dollars in each infringement case, from each sales of such counterfeit goods in the domain name to be awarded 100,000 U.S. dollars. At the same time beats required the Internet domain name registration company to reclaim the infringing domain name, and the domain name to beats. It is not clear what beats can get from this lawsuit, as these claims cannot be truly compensated, even if the court permits. The company launched a similar lawsuit in 2013, with a final court decision to confiscate 1472 domain names, 50 paypal accounts and 14 online sales accounts. (Beckham)