Recently, Mr. Wu got into trouble. He obtained trademark authorization through abnormal channels to extort merchants who had trademark infringements. In less than half a year, he had extorted 900,000 yuan, but often How can you walk along the river without getting your shoes wet? Now he has been arrested and brought to justice.

Wu has been engaged in e-commerce for many years and has rich experience in online store operations. Usually, friends will encounter some problems and like to ask him for advice. In November last year, a friend asked him how to handle complaints about intellectual property infringement by Taobao stores. "Even the products he sold without trademark authorization were complained about, and the product links were deleted."

When he later helped this friend solve the problem, he also made the same mistake himself On the road, I discovered a new direction of "running towards a well-off society", which is to illegally obtain trademark authorization and then complain to Taobao stores that infringe the trademark.

"We have an e-commerce QQ group. When we encounter unfamiliar problems, everyone will communicate with each other." In the group, Wu found an "expert" in infringement complaints named Hu (who has already handled another case) ), he not only understood the issues related to trademark infringement, but also said that he could obtain authorization.

Wu said that when he was solving the problem of his friend, he met a "Hu" by the way. He said that he could obtain those trademark authorizations, and then after they communicated with each other, Wu discovered , it turns out that because many businesses feel that the cost of trademark authorization is too high, they rarely apply for it, so they sell trademarked products without the permission of the original trademark holder. If you have the authorization of those trademarks, you can go Complain to those unauthorized online stores and sue them for infringement.

As long as the complaint is successful, the relevant products of the store will be removed from the shelves and the links will be cleared. However, the e-commerce platform will also give them an appeal period. Generally, many merchants choose to keep it private, so that The complainant gave up the complaint, and Wu made a lot of money through extortion and extortion.

But recently, after he complained to a shopkeeper, the shopkeeper called and offered to give him 1,000 yuan to give up the complaint. However, Wu was greedy and asked for 50,000 yuan. The shop owner was angry but had no choice but to pay 50,000 yuan. After thinking about it, he became more and more unwilling to accept it, so he sued him. Unexpectedly, after relevant investigations, Wu was suspected of extortion and went to jail.

Here Trademark Transfer Network would like to seriously remind all e-commerce merchants that unauthorized use of trademarks is an illegal act. Once the goods are discovered, not only will the goods be seized, but they will also have to pay a large amount of compensation, and they will still own the goods. It’s cost-effective to license a trademark or purchase a trademark yourself!