Adidas sues WuMart Supermarket for trademark infringement

Recently the Beijing 2nd Intermediate People's Court accepted the case in which Adidas-Salamon AG sued Beijing WuMart Stores, Inc. for trademark infringement.

Adidas-Salamon AG is a well-known designer and manufacturer of sports shoes and clothes in the world. Besides the word mark "ADIDAS," Adidas-Salamon AG also registered its clover logo and the device of three parallel lines in China, covering sports shoes and clothes.

Adidas recently found that infringing sports shoes, which bore the representation of three parallel lines and "five-leaf" clover, were sold in the Yutingqiao WuMart Supermarket. The sports shoes were not produced or authorized to produce by Adidas. According to Adidas, as a chain supermarket, WuMart should know that the shoes imitated Adidas’s trademarks with bad faith. However, WuMart still knowingly purchased the shoes and sold them in its supermarket. Therefore, Adidas requested the court to order that WuMart should stop the act of infringement, destroy the infringing goods, publish a statement in newspaper to eliminate the ill effects, compensate RMB 500,000 and pay the costs of the action.