Nike Brings A Chinese Footwear Manufacturer To Court

The sale of a Chinese footwear manufacturer to the court is said.

Several patents against Nike were violated.

Recently, according to reports from foreign media, according to the lawsuit filed by Nike in Nevada last month, the Fujian Bestwinn company (Xiamen Chengda import and Export Co., Ltd.) said that its sports shoes produced, used, sold or exported to the United States were exactly the same as Nike's sports shoes, which infringed Nike (at least 20).

Patents, including the works of CEO Mark Parker and Mark Miner (Adidas hopping Nike employees in 2014).

Xiamen Chengda import and Export Co., Ltd. is a professional exporter of footwear in mainland China.

Nike, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, said that although they had repeatedly warned Bestwinn companies about infringement, Bestwinn continued to manufacture and sell infringing shoes, including Nike's popular Flyknit style.

According to Nike litigation documents, in addition to the request to stop the production of infringing sports shoes mail from 2013, representatives were sent to Las Vegas WSA@Magic Exhibition (international professional shoes exhibition) to meet with Bestwinn personnel to inform their company of the infringement.

But in the past three years, there has been no effect.

On the website of Bestwinn, the product with annual revenue of 50 million -1 billion and 91%-100% is used for export. One of its customers is WAL-MART, a large American retailer.

In short: it is not an irrelevant fish in the market of counterfeit shoes.

Now Nike has launched a patent war against Chinese footwear manufacturers. It shows that it has given enough warning and has taken legal measures to safeguard its rights.

In addition to requiring monetary compensation (Nike said Bestwinn intends to infringing the number of compensation increased by three times) and legal trial, Nike also requested the court to immediately and permanently prohibit Bestwinn from continuing to produce and sell infringing sports shoes.

According to last month's lawsuit, the court initially sentenced Nike to win, agreed with its request to issue a pre injunction and confiscated Bestwinn's infringing sports shoes.

Nike's legal adviser in Las Vegas is responsible for supervising Bestwinn's infringing shoes on the FN platform trade show (last month in Las Vegas, a trade exhibition related to WSA@Magic).