You may not want to buy Nike shoes ever again
You may not want to buy Nike shoes ever again. If you accidentally buy a fake pair of shoes, Nike can claim. By Glyn Moody, we learned that Nike decided to sue a man who ordered a pair of trainers online, thinking they were legitimate Nike shoes. The shoes were seized at the border of the United Kingdom as forgeries. Nike could have gone after the real counterfeiters. Or you might have (perhaps more questionable) has gone after some other third parties such as retailers that sell shoes. Instead, he chose option 3 and sued the buyers directly. Most claims are resolved (or, apparently, ignored). However, a client, Mr. E. Bateman, thought this was ridiculous, and fought. He said that he just thought he was buying legitimate Nike, and it seems pretty ridiculous to then be sued for it. The judge noted that in the UK trademark law, Nike Football Boots the purchaser’s intention is absolutely no sense: “Whether or not the defendant believed the goods were genuine is irrelevant to the question of violation of the trademark.
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