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UGG, Hermes Score Victories Against Counterfeiters
This week, two leading apparel brands, Hermes and UGG Boots,
were victorious against websites selling counterfeit goods.
Hermes won $100 million and permanent injunctions against
websites selling counterfeit Birkin and Kelly bags online. Later in
the week, UGG's parent company, Deckers Outdoor Corp., won $686
million in lawsuits against more than 3,000 China-based websites
selling counterfeit UGGs.
In both cases, many of the funds awarded were seized from the
defendants' PayPal accounts, a practice that was previously not
possible. The seizure of funds from PayPal accounts was done in
accordance with Operation In Our Sites, an initiative by U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security
Investigations and the National Intellectual Property Rights
Coordination Center.
