LVMH wins millions in fake leathergoods hearing
09/09/2009
At a federal court hearing in California, French luxury leathergoods brand LVMH has won an award of $32.4 million against a web hosting company whose users traded counterfeit goods. According to LVMH, most of the websites hosted by the company involved, Akanoc Solutions, were offering fake LVMH leathergoods for sale.
The
intellectual property director of the French fashion brand’s
leather luggage subsidiary, Nathalie Moullé-Berteaux, said the
verdict was “a particularly important one” because it means that
people who know, or should have known, that a service is illegal have
a responsibility not to support it.
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