Taiwan: The tale of the $9 million Birkin bags
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Taiwan: The tale of the $9 million Birkin bags

Managing IP Correspondent
August 31, 2011

Victor Lee, Crystal Chen and Iris Lin of Tsai Lee & Chen explain how an extraordinarily large damages award to Hermès sparked reform of the law on trade mark infringement

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