The Appeal Arbitration Court for Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of Sojuzpatent’s client – a major German sport car producer.

On 23.06.2011, the Appeal Arbitration Court for Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of Sojuzpatent’s client – a German company producing sport cars – and affirmed the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court of April 20, 2011 in accordance with which the Court ruled to make private the entrepreneur Chernus G.V. (the Defendant) answerable for the unlawful use of a trademark, to recover from the defendant compensation at the rate of 10 000 rubles, to confiscate the goods, which is the subject of an administrative offence, as well as to recover from the Defendant in favor of the Applicant (the Moscow customs) expenses for expert examination at the rate of 35 000 rubles.