DSI searched shops selling trademark infringed goods (radio communication equipment) in Ban Mo Plaza downtown with over 50 million Baht damage

DSI searched shops selling trademark infringed goods (radio communication equipment) in Ban Mo Plaza downtown with over 50 million Baht damage

       On January 14, 2021, at 10:30 a.m., the Director-General Pol.Lt.Col. Korrawat Panprapakorn and a Deputy Director-General Pol.Col. Akarapol Punyopashtambha ordered the Director of Intellectual Property Crime Bureau Pol.Lt.Col. Phayao Thongsen, and officials of the DSI equipped with the Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court’s search warrants to search shops in the downtown of Ban Mo as the storage and distribution places of counterfeit trademarks goods (comprising radio communication equipment, radio transceivers, batteries, antennas, and accessories) of Icom, Motorola, Kenwood, and Yaesu trademarks.

       The raids to search resulted from information submitted by the Masuvalley and Partners Company Limited, the authorized person of the 2 injured persons, namely the Icom Incorporated (a Japanese corporation-the Icon trademark owner) and the Motorola, Inc. (an American corporation-the Motorola trademark owner) requesting the Intellectual Property Crime Bureau to investigate and prosecute against shops in the distribution area or the downtown of Ban Mo, Wang Burapha Phirom Subdistrict, Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok selling the counterfeit trademark goods of the said injured persons causing huge damage to them. The Intellectual Property Crime Bureau investigated and traced until finding evidence of crime. The Bureau therefore searched the target shops and storage of goods, 4 places in total as follows. 1. The shop named Yo Telecom; 2. The shop named Nana Radio Communication; 3. The commercial building no. 100/5, Soi Chao Khun Thewes, Wang Burapha Phirom Subdistrict, Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok; and 4. The house no. 250/608, Greenville Village, Buddhamonthon Sai 2 Road, Soi 32, Sala Thammasop Subdistrict, Thawi Watthana District, Bangkok. From the search, the DSI’s search team found and seized 37,694 pieces of goods with over 50 million Baht damage, comprising 3,620 pieces of counterfeit trademark radio communications, 4,005 pieces of counterfeit trademark accessories (batteries, antennas, chargers, and microphones), and 30,069 pieces of radio communications and accessories against the Customs Law.

Dated January 15, 2021