Last year, China’s destruction of 3,500 tons of infringing and counterfeit goods will significantly increase the illegal cost.

China Net May 15 (Reporter Dong Xiaodi) The State Council held a press conference today to introduce the "New Progress Report on China's Intellectual Property Protection and Business Environment (2018)" (hereinafter referred to as the report). Gan Lin, director of the National Leading Group Office for Combating Infringement and Counterfeiting, and deputy director of the State Administration of Markets Supervision, introduced the destruction of counterfeit and counterfeit goods by about 3,500 tons nationwide.

The report shows that in 2018, China’s intellectual property trial reforms have made major breakthroughs. The Supreme People’s Court has set up intellectual property courts. There are 17 high-level courts, 113 intermediate courts and 129 grass-roots courts in the country that have implemented intellectual property civil, administrative and criminal trials. "Three in one" reform.

Administrative enforcement of intellectual property rights is more stringent. In 2018, the national administrative law enforcement department investigated and dealt with 215,000 cases of infringement and counterfeiting, including 77,000 patent infringement and counterfeiting cases, 31,000 trademark violation cases, and more than 2,500 infringement and piracy cases. The customs seized 47,200 batches of infringing goods. 24.8 million pieces.

Judicial protection was more powerful. The public security organs cracked nearly 19,000 cases of infringement and counterfeiting. The procuratorial organs arrested 3,306 cases involving 5,627 infringements of intellectual property rights. The national courts concluded nearly 320,000 cases of various types of intellectual property rights, up 41.6% year-on-year.

Gan Lin, director of the National Leading Group Office for Combating Infringement and Counterfeiting and deputy director of the State Administration of Markets Supervision, said that the Chinese government’s stance on cracking down on infringement and counterfeiting is clear and firm. The next step is to innovate supervision methods, accelerate the application of new technologies and new means, and enhance clues. Tracking traceability and precision strike capability; intensifying punishment, strengthening key areas, key commodities, and key market governance, increasing efforts to counterfeit sources, repeated infringements, and malicious infringements; significantly increasing illegal costs and allowing offenders to pay a heavy price Severe cross-border crimes.