News broke last week of a damages award of $US20 million to Italian fashion house Versace by a court in Los Angeles in a vast counterfeiting and trade mark case in the United States.According to Versace, investigators moved in on 72 retail stores in southern California and Arizona in 2003 and charged 110 people with selling counterfeit goods bearing brand names owned by the company. The company said the compensation was "the highest ever obtained by an Italian company in a case brought abroad in defence of their brand name".
I've received emails asking me if I know any more about this case and about the make-up of the huge cash award (which I don't). Do any readers have anything to add, since all the news items on the internet seem to be based on the same press release.
