NEC awarded 1.15 million yuan in Beijing

The Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court, on June 27, entered the first instance decision for the infringement of NEC trademark and unfair competition, ordering defendants Zhuhai Yuehua Electronic, Yuehua Technology and Shenzhen JEEJA Electronic to cease manufacture and sales of infringing products and defendant Beijing Century Yuehua to cease sales of infringing products. The four defendants shall also indemnify NEC 1.15 million yuan in damages. Other claims of NEC are denied.

NEC registered its trademark in China in 1979. In 2006, Administration for Industry and Commerce in Zhuhai imposed administrate sanctions on Zhuhai Yuehua Electronic and Yuehua Technology, seized and destructed a large number of counterfeit NEC keyboards. NEC then sued the four defendants for serious quality defects of the counterfeit keyboards inflicting damages upon its reputation and sought injunction and monetary damages.