Coach, a leading American designer and maker of luxury lifestyle handbags and accessories, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Taobao.com, the Chinese Internet shopping subsidiary of Alibaba Group, to prevent the sale of fake Coach products on this Chinese website.

According to reports in local media, more than ten instant bean vermicelli products from Baijia have been removed from the shelves of major supermarkets in Shijiazhuang, due to the similarity of its trademark with that of Baixiang, another Chinese instant food maker.

According to information from Chinese Internet auction website Taobao.com, the website is currently cooperating with local commerce departments around China to fight sales of fake and shoddy products, and users who are found selling fake products in their online shops on Taobao.com will have their accounts permanently disabled.

The Beijing Wu-Mart Yutingqiao store has been sued for selling fake Adidas shoes and was sentenced by Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court to pay Adidas compensation of CNY20,000.

Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court has accept a lawsuit raised by Shanghai Shangdao Food Chain Management against Shanghai Cailin Food Management and Shanghai Lifeng Food Company for trademark infringement.