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Strong progress in IPR protection campaign

www.chinanews.cn 2005-09-08 08:40:21

(Source: China Daily)

XIAMEN, Sept. 8 - China's specialized campaign to enforce intellectual
property rights laws has been extremely successful, government officials
said yesterday at the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation)
High-level Symposium on IPR.
Ma Enzhong, deputy secretary-general of the State Office of Intellectual
Property Protection, said that since last September, nine criminal and
administrative enforcement departments have acted together in a
nationwide crackdown on piracy, counterfeits, and trademark and patent
infringements.
In the past 12 months, industry and commerce departments on all levels
have investigated and dealt with 24,189 trademark infringement cases and
imposed fines totalling 157 million yuan (US$19.36 million), Ma said.
Copyright and cultural agencies have seized more than 167 million pirated
products, destroyed 24 assembly lines for illegal disc production and
shut down more than 2,960 illegal printing operations, he said.
Ma went on to say that patent offices have investigated and dealt with
1,115 instances of imitating patents and 153 instances of counterfeiting
patents.
Customs authorities have investigated and dealt with 949 IPR infringement
cases of imported and exported goods with a value of 73 million yuan
(US$9 million), he added.
Public security units have resolved 1,300 IPR infringement cases
involving merchandise valued at 1 billion yuan (US$123.30 million) and
have arrested 3,000 criminal suspects, he said.

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