Recently, Fengxian police destroyed 5 counterfeit dens manufacturing and selling counterfeit "Mercury Home Textiles" in one fell swoop. In the corner of the dens manufacturing and selling fake products, quilts and raw materials were piled up in a messy manner.

Imitate the brand name of "Mercury Home Textiles" and use "Lover Mercury" and "Dream Mercury" Home Textiles as store names in order to borrow the halo of the famous brand and sell fake products. The highest level of these online stores is crown level, and the lowest level is 4 diamonds. Recently, the Fengxian Public Security Bureau of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau detected a case of counterfeiting registered trademarks, destroyed 5 counterfeit dens for manufacturing and selling counterfeit "Mercury Home Textiles", arrested more than 20 suspects, and detained 9 people.

Total sales exceeded 10 million

In early January 2015, the legal department of "Mercury Home Textiles" reported to the police station that someone was using the names of "Dream Mercury" and "Lover" on the e-commerce trading platform. "Mercury" and other brand names, and selling products counterfeiting "Mercury Home Textiles" are suspected of counterfeiting registered trademarks.

Mercury Home Textiles said that they found a website selling "Mercury Home Textiles". After clicking the link, the web page was redirected to a Taobao store. The Taobao store shows that it sells quilts, quilt covers, pillowcases and other home textile products from "Merry Dream Mercury Home Textiles" and "Lover Mercury Home Textiles". Later, they discovered that in the buyer's show of these products, the trademark of the products sold was actually "Mercury Home Textiles."

Mercury Home Textiles believes that the online store is selling fake and shoddy "Mercury Home Textiles" products, which has affected the sales volume of "Mercury Home Textiles".

After receiving the alarm, the Economic Investigation Detachment of Fengxian Branch and Xidu Police Station jointly investigated. Investigator Officer Wu said: "The investigation found that these products named 'Dream Mercury' and 'Lover Mercury' used picture information of Mercury Home Textiles in the introduction on the detail page. During the communication with customer service, the customer service It is said that 'Lover Mercury' and 'Dream Mercury' are subsidiaries of 'Mercury Home Textiles'."

The investigation showed that there were a total of 6 Taobao stores involved in the case. Police officer Wu said: "These counterfeiting dens usually do not have offline physical stores, but only sell online. In order to avoid Taobao's supervision and investigation, a counterfeiting den often opens three or four online stores at the same time. If one of the online stores is cracked down, it will Use another online store to continue selling fake goods.”

The reporter learned that the highest level of these online stores selling fake goods has reached the Silver Crown level, and the lowest level is 4 diamonds. "The sales volume of these stores are very large. From November last year to February this year, each store had a sales volume of 3 to 4 million yuan, and the total sales volume has exceeded 10 million yuan."

End off 5 manufacturing and selling fake dens

Through the cooperation with Taobao, investigators learned that the online store is located in Haimen City, Nantong, Jiangsu Province. Subsequently, the investigators immediately rushed to Haimen.

The investigators used the logistics information of the stores involved in the case as a breakthrough point to find the place of shipment, and then touched the sales points and processing points of these online stores.

"Their counterfeiting market is very mature. They will sell the trademarks of whatever brand you want. As long as you buy the trademark and provide it to the supplier or processing point for production, you can You can get (counterfeit) products of a certain brand." Officer Wu said, taking the counterfeit "Mercury Home Textile" products as an example, following the local counterfeiting process, it only costs 70 or 80 yuan to buy online. It can be sold for two to three hundred yuan.

The police also found that the counterfeit production and sales dens involved in the case were not large. This case involved two counterfeit production and sales gangs. The counterfeit manufacturing and sales points are both in ordinary houses. A small factory shed and five or six employees are a small workshop, which can successfully complete the counterfeiting operation.

Finally, the Fengxian police basically grasped the suspect’s temporary residence, movement patterns and personnel structure, and the time was ripe for arrest.

On the same day, the Fengxian police dispatched more than 50 police officers to destroy 5 counterfeit dens manufacturing and selling counterfeit "Mercury Home Textiles" in one fell swoop. More than 20 suspects were arrested on the spot. More than 4,000 four-piece sets with the registered trademark "Mercury Home Textiles" were seized on the spot. , more than 20,000 trademarks of various well-known home textile brands, and more than 1,000 "Mercury Home Textile" packaging bags.

After arriving at the case, the criminal suspect confessed to the fact that he had been manufacturing and selling counterfeit goods since mid-October 2014. The suspect said that he chose the "fringe" name to borrow the halo of the famous brand.

Currently, the nine suspects involved in the case have been criminally detained by Fengxian police in accordance with the law on suspicion of counterfeiting registered trademarks. The case is under further investigation.