AMTD Wins Major IP Battles Against Luxury Village LLC Over "L'OFFICIEL" Infringements, Secures Domain Transfers and Trademark Rejection

AMTD Group Inc. ("AMTD" or the "Group"), alongside The Generation Essentials Group ("TGE"), a subsidiary of the Group under AMTD Digital, jointly announce that as a global owner of fashion magazines published under "L'OFFICIEL AMTD" and its associated brands, we have recently won two more successful actions against IP infringers Luxury Village LLC and its director Dimitri Vorontsov ("IP infringers") for their infringing and improper conduct.

On 29 July 2024, we successfully obtained a Hong Kong court order, case number HKIP 73 / 2023 mandating these IP infringers to cease prohibited operations and relinquish domain names wrongfully incorporating "lofficiel". However, Luxury Village LLC has since continued to operate <lofficiel.au> and <lofficielfashionbook.hk> and published digital copies of "L'Officiel Fashion Book" magazines in breach of the court order.  We will not tolerate such IP infringement and have subsequently successfully obtained court decisions against Luxury Village LLC, which have resulted in the transfer of the domain names <lofficiel.au> (WIPO case no: DAU 2025-008) and <lofficielfashionbook.hk> (HKIAC case no: DHK-2400211) back to us.

Further to the victory in the aforementioned domain name proceedings, we are pleased to announce that AMTD secured another major victory on July 25, 2025, successfully blocking the bad faith application by Luxury Village LLC of a "L'OFFICIEL FASHION BOOK" trade mark in Australia - Australian Trade mark number 2289204, Decision Number 2025 ATMO 145. 

In this decision, the Registrar of Trade Marks of IP Australia ("the "Registrar") decided that "L'OFFICIAL FASHION BOOK" must be refused registration on the basis that Luxury Village LLC made the trade mark application in bad faith. The Registrar's decision reinforces that Luxury Village LLC has acted and continues to act in bad faith which infringes AMTD's rights. An extract from the Registrar's decision is set out below: "A reasonable person standing in the shoes of [Luxury Village LLC] should have considered themselves constrained from applying for the Trade Mark on the basis of the previous dealings between AMTD and TGE, as well as the Director of the Applicant company and that in all the circumstances surrounding this matter, the Application was made in bad faith".

These legal rulings and decisions underscore the protection of AMTD's intellectual property rights and highlights the bad faith actions of Luxury Village LLC in using domain name for commercial gain, misleadingly suggesting an affiliation with AMTD. The Registrar's decision also reaffirms the rights of AMTD and TGE in IP protection, ensuring the protection of our brands and intellectual property.

We remain steadfast in maintaining the integrity of our brands and will continue to take prompt and decisive actions to safeguard our trademarks globally. We have also successfully taken down other infringing domain names such as <lofficiel.co>, <lofficiel.co.com>, <lofficiel.cn>, <lofficiel.net.cn>, <lofficielengland.com>, and <lofficielitaly.com> being illicit attempts to exploit our international profile and growth.