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IPOH: An proprietor of a gadget firm was fined RM40,000 by the Sessions Court right here on Thursday (Sept 24) after pleading responsible to possessing 529 Oppo smartphones bearing counterfeit logos final February.
Judge Ainul Sharin Mohamad imposed the high-quality on the accused, Wong Soon Yaw, 37, proprietor of M One Gadget, and ordered a 12-month jail sentence if he did not pay.
Wong, who was unrepresented, paid the high-quality.
According to the cost, the accused was present in possession of 529 Oppo smartphones of assorted fashions and hues, bearing registered logos belonging to Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd, together with the ‘Oppo’ trademark and different associated logos, which had been falsely utilized to the products at his firm’s premises in Jalan Besar Gunung Rapat at 12.25pm on Feb 5.
The cost was framed beneath Section 102(1)(c) of the Trademarks Act 2019 (Act 815), and is punishable beneath Section 102(1)(c)(ii) of the identical Act, which supplies for a most high-quality of RM10,000 for every merchandise or imprisonment for as much as three years, or each, for a primary offence.
For a second or subsequent offence, the supply carries a most high-quality of RM20,000 for every merchandise or imprisonment for as much as 5 years, or each, upon conviction.
The court docket additionally ordered all of the telephones seized as displays to be returned to the federal government for disposal by way of the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry.
According to the details of the case, the ministry inspected the premises on Feb 5 following a grievance relating to the usage of the Oppo trademark.
The inspection discovered that the premises saved 529 smartphones of assorted fashions bearing the Oppo model, which had been suspected of falsely utilizing a registered trademark.
An investigation by KPDN along with a consultant of the trademark proprietor subsequently confirmed that the smartphones had been counterfeit items. – Bernama
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