Gucci America has been awarded $9 million against counterfeiting, by the U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida, about nearly 100 sites, most of which were registered in China and which bore Gucci campaign advertisements, logos, product images and descriptions from official websites, and many of which also used Gucci’s trademark-protected name in their domain names.
According to sources, a total of 89 domain names, have been ordered cease all operations within 30 days. Gucci has been granted ownership of those domains, and the operators of the sites have been ordered to pay $100,000 per site (or $110,000 if the Gucci trademark was used in the url), for a total of $9 million dollars.
