A court in Guangdong province has held a five-star hotel responsible for leasing space to a seller of knock-off Louis Vuitton (LV) products.

The Intermediate People's Court in Dongguan city ordered the hotel and shop manager to pay 100,000 yuan in compensation to the French luxury producer. The court also ordered the shop and the hotel to stop selling the products and destroy any remaining counterfeit items, Xinhua News Agency reported.

The court documents didn't name the hotel but did state that the hotel collected a monthly rental of 20,000 yuan from leasing the shop, where sales people wore hotel uniforms.

"There were no signboards or any notices in the shop for customers to identify that the management was independent from the hotel," the court ruled.

Louis Vuitton had demanded compensation of 500,000 yuan from the hotel and a public apology through the media. The court declined, saying that the hotel hadn't caused widespread market harm to LV.