It is a pirated brand. Four-leaf clover is not a brand owned by Adidas.
In 2016, the "Little Golden Egg Flagship Store", a children's footwear Tmall store that was preparing for "Double 11", received bad news: they lost a trademark infringement case and had to compensate Adidas for 1.2 million yuan.
During the trial of this case, the "Little Golden Egg Company" argued that it used the "four stripes" and "four-leaf clover" logos, which are similar to the famous "three stripes" and "shamrock" logos of Adidas. "It's different.
150,000 pairs of infringing shoes were sold, and Adidas claimed 3 million yuan in compensation.
In September 2015, an agent of Adidas placed an order at Tmall’s “Little Golden Egg Flagship Store” online store and purchased three pairs of shoes. Adidas believes that the trademarks of these three pairs of shoes infringe the exclusive rights of Adidas' three trademarks - the three-slash trademark, the three-stripe trademark and the clover trademark.
Adidas said that according to transaction records, the sales volume of the shoes involved in the case was huge. Since the first half of 2015, more than 150,000 pairs of infringing products have been sold, with a sales amount of more than 10 million yuan.
Adidas requires the other party to stop producing and selling the products involved and to compensate for economic losses of 3 million yuan.
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During the court hearing, Xiaojindan argued that the logos of the products involved in the case it sold were different from those of Adidas. Some of the trademarks on the shoes are "four stripes" and some are "four-leaf clover".
The person in charge of the Little Golden Egg Company also said that when searching for Adidas on the Internet, no product information related to their company will appear, which will not mislead consumers, so there is no infringement of Adidas's exclusive trademark rights.
The Ouhai Court held after hearing that the trademark of Adidas registered with the China Trademark Office is protected by Chinese law. Xiaojindan Company violated Adidas’s trademark rights by using a logo similar to the registered trademark of Adidas on the shoes involved. .
In addition, Little Golden Egg Company’s business model is online sales, and the consumers involved exceed the restrictions of geographical space. The infringement lasts for a long time, and the sales of the accused infringing products are as high as more than 100,000 pairs.
The Ouhai Court ruled in court: Wenzhou Xiaojindan Trading Co., Ltd. immediately stopped the infringement and compensated Adidas Co., Ltd. for economic losses of RMB 1.2 million.
China News Network-Four stripes and four-leaf clover, a Wenzhou company lost 1.2 million to Adidas