Shanghai Pudong District People's Court rendered a judgment on a group of IPR infringement cases and six defendants were sentenced recently.

The infringing products were sold in three Shanghai markets with LV、GUCCI、CHANEL、ROLEX、LONGINES、OMEGA、BVLGARI、IWC、PRADA、Cartier and other symbols on bags, belts, wallets, keytainers, watches, jewelries and lighters. From the six convicts, authorities seized from 187 to 1,053 pieces of infringing goods with a value spanning from 900,000 yuan to 7.5 million yuan .

The six defendants were sentenced from 8 months to two years and six months in prison and fined 15,000 yuan to 80,000 yuan respectively. Taking into consideration their confession and one convict's turning himself in to authority, the court allowed all of them to be on probation.  

(China IP News)