Selling fake Pokemon watches for profit, young men were fined 600 times

Selling fake goods Counterfeiters is no longer a strange topic in modern society, it brings a large profit but comes with high risks if this illegal act is discovered. Recently, LTN reported that a man surnamed Chu in Taiwan (China) was arrested for selling watches. Pokemon GO Plus fake, Chu has been owned by the company Nintendo sued and had to pay a large sum of money.​

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It is known that from the end of August 2018 to March 2019, Chu had an act of selling watches Pokemon GO Plus, fake cases, hangers with prices from NT$550 to NT$628 (about VND 430,000 to VND 490,000). In December 2018, Nintendo stumbled upon this man’s online store and became suspicious. After buying a few items here and conducting testing, the company confirmed that this is a fake.

During the lawsuit, Nintendo accused this man of selling 377 counterfeit items, infringing on Nintendo’s trademark rights and resolutely not conciliating. The man, surnamed Zhou, argued that he did not know it was a fake, and that the company should not equate a 30 yuan hanger with a 550 yuan watch.​

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Finally, after investigating and reviewing the evidence, the court found that this man had committed copyright infringement with 307 counterfeit items, plus a firm denial and defense after committed a crime, this man was forced to pay Nintendo 600 times the value of a watch he sold, according to which the compensation amounted to NT$330,000 (about VND 257 million).

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