6 Apr 1992
LEVI STRAUSS AND CO. v. MARUICHI HOLDINGS (H.K.) LTD. AND OTHERS
- Citation
- LEVI STRAUSS AND CO. v. MARUICHI HOLDINGS (H.K.) LTD. AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA9669/1991
The court found on the affidavits and seized contemporaneous documents that the defendants (principally the 3rd and 4th) produced and supplied counterfeit Levi "501" jeans, labels and other paraphernalia and arranged shipments through Hong Kong; those acts constituted use in the course of trade amounting to trade mark infringement under s.27 and constituted passing off because they misrepresented goods and were likely to injure the plaintiff's goodwill in Hong Kong. The defendants failed to raise a credible triable issue under Order 14 R.3(1); therefore summary judgment and the substantive in…