On July 13, Shanghai Putuo District People's Court IP Tribunal rendered a judgment on 3 IPR infringement cases, two of which are infringing UGG boots. The defendant surname Chen was sentenced to six years imprisonment, a fine of 1 million yuan for distributing counterfeit UGG boots outside China. Another defendant with surname Lu, also the supplier of Chen, was sentenced two years and six months in prison and a fine of 200,000 yuan.

Chen bought fake UGG boots worth 1.48 million yuan from Lu between February 2009 and October 2010. After that, he began to distributed the fake products via two online payment websites. In December 2010 and January 2011, Shanghai Public Security Bureau seized the fake products worth 1.18 million yuan at a warehouse of Chen.

As the defendants were jailed for marketing counterfeit products via Internet, the judgment set a good example to the judicial practice in Internet IP protection, said a relevant principal.

(China IP News)