Volvo won a lawsuit in the US against an anonymous China-based company selling online different counterfeit accessories for its cars.
According to the company, these products were cheap, low-quality imitations that were against the company’s intellectual property rights.
The Court agreed and ordered $2 million in damages. The interesting part here is, however, the fact that the court required Pay Pal, which was used as a payment service by the counterfeiter, to transfer all of the funds related to the counterfeiter to Volvo as well as to reveal information for any closed or other accounts linked to that anonymous infringer.
Source: WIPR.
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