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The Shandong High Court upheld previous trial court decision handed down last July that found Yantai Bai Qi Wine Company infringed legal intellectual property rights of Bordeaux, and engaged in unfair competition by selling fake Bordeaux wines.
A video showing the production of fake Château La Tour Carnet, a grand cru classe estate in Bordeaux, has caused uproar in Chinese wine trade.
In a blow to Penfolds’ efforts to protect its trademark in China, Beijing High Court has overturned a decision by Beijing IP court to invalidate Rush Rich’s trademark claim of Ben Fu Winery (奔富酒园).
A fraudster has been sentenced to three years in jail and fined for RMB 150,000 (US$21,400) for selling counterfeit Australian wine Penfolds in Shanghai.
A wine shop in Liuzhou in China’s southwestern Guangxi province is found to have sold fake Penfolds Grange and Penfolds Bin 707 that have caused health hazards to drinkers, local police has reported.
Treasury Wine Estates, the parent company of Penfolds, has successfully opposed the registration of two trademarks ‘Barry Ford’ and ‘Ben Ford’ in China that were intended to mimic Penfolds’ trademarked name in China.
Australia’s wine giant Treasury Wine Estates has announced that it has won a legal case against Penfolds’ copycat wine brand Rush Rich in Australia.