RPT-LVMH must repay 33 million euros in eBay
Posted by adminEbay announced Friday that the Court of Appeal of Paris asked to pay LVMH 33 million euros in the American group in the context of infringement case between the two companies.
The online auction site had been sentenced in June 2008 by the Commercial Court of Paris to pay a total of 38.6 million euros to repair luxury group for dissemination and distribution of counterfeit perfume out of approved circuit.
Ebay does not detail the decision of the Court of Appeal but the Chief Executive in France, Yohan Ruso, said in a statement that the injunction against the U.S. group has been "reduced in scope" .
LVMH believes his side that "the principle of responsibility, this decision confirms the decision of 30 June 2008 by the Commercial Court of Paris.
The group emphasizes that the Court condemns eBay to pay $ 5.7 million in damages and interest and open "the possibility for applicants to hire additional remedies in foreign courts for compensation for damage suffered in their territories.
The Commercial Court had held late June 2008 that eBay had committed "serious misconduct by failing in its obligations to ensure that its activities do not generate illegal acts."
Despite the appeal of eBay, the court ordered the provisional enforcement of financial sanctions.
It was the first trial of this magnitude on the sale of branded products on the internet. The court had held at first instance that the auction site could not hide behind the fact that he was only putting in connecting buyers and sellers.
Before LVMH, Hermes also had won a ruling against eBay but for a sum much smaller. The site had been convicted by the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Troyes to pay 20,000 euros in damages to luxury goods group in the Rue St. Honore.
Commercial judges had sanctioned the sale of counterfeit goods from eBay imitation leather goods from Louis Vuitton and Dior Couture clothing.They had also sanctioned the sale of authentic fragrances and cosmetics brands Dior, Kenzo, Givenchy and Guerlain, on the ground that LVMH had not chosen this diffuser.