Sunday, March 28, 2010

Louis Vuitton Wins Injunction

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer, March, 2010
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As he indicated during a January hearing, U.S. District Judge James Ware of San Jose granted a permanent injunction late Friday against an Internet service provider for hosting Web sites that sold knockoffs of high-end retailer Louis Vuitton.

The judge agreed that it would be an unreasonable burden to require Louis Vuitton to continue monitoring the site operated by Fremont-based Akanoc Solutions Inc., which sold the goods, often overseas.

"The court finds that granting an appropriate injunction here would merely require defendants to enforce their own terms of use policy and come into compliance with federal statutes that a jury found the defendants violated," Ware wrote.

A jury awarded Louis Vuitton $32 million in damages last summer.