Thirty-year-old business owner, Pankaj Bhatia of Edam Drive, Kingston 8 was sentenced to six months imprisonment or pay a fine of $500,000 on Monday, after he pleaded guilty to charges of unauthorised use of trademarks registered to C&J Clark International Limited in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, October 23.
The sentencing follows a major crackdown initiative that was launched earlier this year by the Anti-Trafficking in Persons, Intellectual Property (A-TIP-IP) Vice Squad operating out of the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID), in response to calls from stakeholders for more action in the market place in combating intellectual property crimes.
On Tuesday, July 15, OCID Detectives carried out operations at a business place operated by Bhatia in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, where 1,857 pairs of shoes bearing the 'Clarks' and other trademarks registered to C&J Clark International were seized. Bhatia was subsequently arrested and charged with unauthorised use of trademarks (section 69 of the Trademarks Act)
The Judge has ordered that the 1857 pairs of shoes be forfeited and destroyed.
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