A Utah company that builds and hosts websites has been ordered to pay more than $700,000 in damages to an Orange County golf club manufacturer for helping create and promote a website that sold counterfeit clubs
buckworks
3:54 pm on Mar 26, 2011 (gmt 0)
ordering Bright Builders this month to pay $770,750 to Cleveland Golf. Prince was ordered to pay $28,250.
I don't disagree that the web promoters bear some responsibility here but those numbers seem out of proportion to me.
Why does the client who was actually importing the goods get off so lightly by comparison?
aspdaddy
6:20 pm on Mar 26, 2011 (gmt 0)
I think its the right decision, Without the websites there would likely been no importing , aiding and abetting sales in this case is a much bigger crime than importing.
walkman
7:07 pm on Mar 26, 2011 (gmt 0)
I googled their name. Looks like they had it coming
But it's a disgrace that indirect in-fringers were ordered to pay 20 some times more than direct infringers. Like giving probation to the person that planned and executed the murder and a death sentence to the driver that may have known about it.
