The Shanghai Huangpu District People's Court ruled in favor of Swarovski over a domain name dispute, awarding an injunction and 98,000 yuan in damages from the defendant Wang Chenjun and his company Shanghai Wangxing information technology Co. ltd. on November 3. The court ordered the defendant disusing the domain name chinaswarovski.com and cease using Swarovski's four registered trademarks on the website and the distribution of the products with registered marks in question is also ceased. The disputed website was sentenced to Swarovski.

Swarovski,the world famous crystal manufacturer discovered that the defendant Wang Chenjun and his company registered the four websites such as chinaswarovski.com and sold the infringing products with Swarovski's registered marks. Swarovski then brought the case to the court and seek 400,000 yuan in damages and requested the defendant gratuitous transfer the four domain names.

The court holds that the defendant infringed Swarovski's registered trademarks and so the order above was made.  

(China IP News)