It is recently learnt from the high official of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) that progress has been made in the special campaign against the IP infringement and manufacture and sale of counterfeit and fake products.
The Special Campaign was launched in October, to comply with the Plan formulated by the State Council. Since then, SAIC worked out implementing tasks requiring all local administrative agencies for industry and commerce to make joint efforts and fight against imitating acts of the names, packages and decorations of famous-brand products; investigate illegal activities relating to foreign trademarks and well-known trademarks; prevent bad-faith registration of trademarks supervise the printing enterprises which print trademark representations.
The statistics show that a total of 3,010 cases of infringement and counterfeited acts had been handled, of which 1262 relate to infringement of well-known trademarks, 392 relate to exclusive rights of foreign trademarks, 61 relate to geographical indication (GI), and 20 concerning sale of fake and counterfeit products on the internet. The total value of cases reached over 44 million RMB.
