Because of their visibility, prominent branded goods in the news service of new kyoto (journalist zhang zhengwei yellow ice), are often more popular with consumers in the market, and some outlaws, for their profit, are putting counterfeit goods into the market through the use of “plaguing” “low-priced flows”, which both infringes the legitimate rights and interests of trademark holders, as well as the interests of consumers and the market order of fair competition, and even more touch the high line of law. In recent days, the people's court of the east city district of beijing has heard a criminal case for the sale of toilets that impersonate “toto” registered trademarks, and two men have been sentenced by law for selling counterfeit registered trademarks。
Between september 2023 and july 2024, xu, and liu, knowing that the toilet in question was a toilet with a false “toto” registered trademark, continued to promote its sale through a network store registered by liu, known as the “sweet smart homes and homes department”, with links such as the “toto smart house” “toto smart pistol”, and sold 906 toilets with fake “toto” registered trademarks to yang and others in the eastern part of beijing city, for a total of over $2. 09 million yuan. Of these, xu was the actual owner of the shop and liu was involved in post-sale maintenance. On 21 march 2025, xu zi and liu zi was arrested by the civilian police and subsequently prosecuted by the people's procuratorate of the eastern city of beijing. During the trial, the families of the two accused surrendered all the proceeds of the offence, respectively。
The people's court of the eastern city of beijing found that the defendant, xu zi and liu zi, who sold goods known to be counterfeit registered trademarks, acting in particularly serious circumstances, had committed the offence of selling counterfeit registered trademarks and had been sentenced by law to three to ten years ' imprisonment and a fine. In view of the fact that, upon arrival, the two accused had confessed to the main crimes, voluntarily pleaded guilty, that the family had surrendered all the proceeds of the offence, and that the accused, liu yi, was an accessory to the crime, he was given a lighter sentence, and that the latter, liu choi, was subject to a reduced penalty and a suspended sentence。
In the end, the court, taking into account the duration of the offence committed by the two accused, the amount of the violation, the amount of the sale, the amount of the proceeds of the offence and its role in the commission of the joint offence, sentenced the accused to three years and nine months ' imprisonment for the sale of goods falsely registered on the trademark and to a fine of 200,000 yuan yuan; and sentenced the accused, liu to one year and six months ' imprisonment, two years ' probation and 10,000 yuan. Following the judgement, neither of the accused filed an appeal and the judgement entered into force。
Editor, yang hai
