Trademark rights are protected by law. Many famous brands have trademark rights, and some lawless elements will counterfeit or sell products of counterfeit brands. Hangzhou police cracked the case of manufacturing and selling fake brand-name clothes. How should they be punished for selling fake brand-name clothes?

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The gang bought fabrics and semi-finished products, cut, ironed and sewed them according to the styles of famous brands, and affixed the trademark signs of internationally renowned brands, and sold them to unspecified people through online shopping platforms. The cumulative production and sale of counterfeit brand-name clothing has reached hundreds of thousands, and the illegal profit has exceeded 8 million yuan. The police also found out that Hu, who provided trademark logos to Jiang, had sold tens of millions of trademark logos, and the illegal profit exceeded 3 million yuan.

2. How to punish selling fake brand-name clothes?

It's normal to sell clothes live, but it's suspected of selling fake and inferior products and operating without a license. In the worst case, they will be detained, and depending on the seriousness of the case, they will be sentenced. The definition and punishment standard of this crime in the Criminal Law:

Article 214 The crime of selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks, if the sales amount is relatively large, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also or only be fined; If the sales amount is huge, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.

3. What should you do if you suspect that you bought fake clothes?

first of all, if there are quality problems with the clothes, keep the invoices and receipts at the time of purchase, and then ask the merchants to return or exchange them. If it can be confirmed that it is a fake, you can ask for three times compensation. Secondly, if the merchants can't give a satisfactory solution, they can complain to consumer associations, market supervision and management bureaus, or ask for media exposure and alarm handling. If you swallow your pride blindly, you will not only waste money, but also encourage the arrogance of counterfeiting.

Postscript: If the distributor sells goods with counterfeit registered trademarks or goods with trademark infringement without knowing or knowing, he shall be told to stop selling the goods immediately. The distributor who stops selling the goods in time may be exempted from administrative punishment. The distributor shall eliminate the trademark infringement mark, and the goods with trademark infringement shall not enter the circulation field again.