The case involved 44784 men's T-shirts, worth about 700 thousand yuan.

At the end of 2007, the head of the company contacted the Caribbean customers through the Internet and organized clothing production according to customer requirements.

In January 2008, the company declared to the Wuhu customs through custom brokers company the export of 620 boxes of 80000 men's T-shirts.

However, in the inspection, the Wuhu customs found that the actual number of men's T-shirts was 44784, marked "Abercrombie & Fitch" and "LACOSTE" respectively.

The customs officers compare with the relevant trademarks of the Customs Intellectual Property Protection filing system, and initially determine that the goods belong to the goods infringing upon the trademark rights of others.

The Wuhu customs then reported the situation to the competent Customs Department of Hefei, and contacted the agents of the two trademarks, the Limited by Share Ltd of the A & F trademark and the agent of lacoste in China, and confirmed the facts of the infringement.

According to the application of the obligee, the customs detained the goods in accordance with the law and placed them on file for investigation.