If you sell counterfeit Midea products, Midea can sue you, but the outcome of the lawsuit may not necessarily be unfavorable to you. This may have two outcomes: 1. If you know or should know that it is fake when selling this Midea bathroom heater, the court will definitely award you compensation, but the amount of compensation will never reach as high as 50,000 yuan, because your The illegal business volume is only 130 yuan. If the administrative law enforcement department imposes a penalty, the maximum fine is three times. Therefore, the amount of compensation awarded by the court cannot exceed 10 times the illegal business volume.
2. If you did not know that this Midea bathroom heater was counterfeit when you purchased and sold it, and you can explain the source of the purchase of this Midea bathroom heater, the court will not award you compensation. Article 56, Paragraph (3) of the Trademark Law stipulates that “anyone who sells goods that are not aware that they infringe the exclusive rights of a registered trademark and can prove that the goods were lawfully acquired and the supplier of the goods shall not be liable for compensation.”
Therefore, you don’t need to panic. The worst result is a compensation of about 1,000 yuan.