Perekryostok, the Russian supermarket chain, will have to pay a fine of only 70,000 rubles (€1,.800-$2,300) for infringing on Adidas' three-stripe trademark by selling shoes with a confusingly similar logo, based on a ruling issued by Russia's Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals, which upheld last October's judgment by a lower court. Adidas had requested damages of 1.1 million rubles (€0.02m-$0.03m) in a lawsuit filed early last year, after warning Perekryostok about repeated violations since June 2011. The two courts went for a relatively low fine because of evidence that only one of the chain's 11 stores had sold this kind of shoe.

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