Tory Burch Wins $164 Million in Suit Against Online Counterfeiters

A big win for the fashion industry last Friday, when it was announced that a New York federal court had found in favor of designer/brand Tory Burch and awarded the company $164 million in damages, to be paid out by the owners of hundreds of websites who had been selling knock-offs of their products, chiefly Burch’s Reva ballet flats. The suit was filed at the end of last year, alleging that a group believed to be located in China had set up 232 individual sites which were “designed to appear to unsuspecting consumers to be an official Tory Burch site or an authorized retailer of Tory Burch products.”