New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc recently won an intellectual property dispute in China.
Chinese manufacturers copy products but sell them with a slight modification of the brand name. For the copied New Balance shoes, customers were faced with similar looking products called New Boom, New Barlun and New Bunren — brand names that were protected under China’s trademark law.
The Suzhou Intermediate People’s Court recently fined five companies US$250,000 for breaching an injunction issued in September 2016 prohibiting them from selling shoes with the US shoemaker’s signature slanting “N” logo.
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