Pfizer wins 200,000-yuan compensation over trademark infringement

November 6, 2007

A Beijing court ordered a local bio-technology company to pay 200,000 yuan (26,700 U.S. dollars) in compensation to Pfizer Products, Inc. for trademark infringement.
The Beijing-based company, naming itself as Huirui (same as Pfizer’s Chinese trade name) biotechnologies Co. Ltd. and prominently used the name on its website to promote sales of its product.

Pfizer claimed that the defendant's infringing acts had incurred damage to its reputation and constituted unfair competition.

On September 24, the Beijing 1st Intermediate People's Court made the sentence at the first instance, ruling that the defendant pay the due compensation to the plaintiff for the infringement.