Company that sold counterfeit luxury brand items ordered to pay R$ 50,000 in damages.
A company was ordered by the court to pay R$ 50,000 in damages for improperly reproducing products from a luxury brand. It will also have to stop selling them. The names of those involved were not released.
The decision was partially upheld by the 2nd Reserved Chamber of Business Law of the Court of Justice of São Paulo (TJSP) and released on Thursday (8).
According to investigations, an operation by the Federal Revenue Service seized more than 7,300 counterfeit items, valued at approximately R$ 150,000.
Regarding moral damages, the panel increased the amount from R$ 5,000 to R$ 50,000. As for material damages, the compensation will be calculated during the sentence enforcement phase.
The appeals court judge, Grava Brazil, justified the increase by considering the scale of the operation. According to him, this was not a simple case of counterfeiting, but a factory dedicated to the systematic reproduction of counterfeit goods of internationally recognized luxury brands.
The judge also points out that the manufacturing structure, found during the operation, was much larger than the company's registered capital of R$ 10,000. The seized goods were valued at 15 times that amount.
The decision was unanimous in the trial, which was attended by judges Ricardo Negrão and Fábio Tabosa.
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