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Legal Problems on RIM’s Recent Combat on Trademark Infringement in China, II

III. The differences between the act of refurnishing mobile phones and crime of counterfeiting registered trademarks

The crime of counterfeiting registered trademark specified in the Article 213 of the Criminal Law ( the “Article 213”) refers to whoever, without permission from the owner of a registered trademark, uses a trademark which is identical with the registered trademark on the same kind of commodities shall, if the circumstances are serious, be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of no more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined; if the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined . (the image is the genuine Blackberry and genuine Blackberry)

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In China, It’s Easy to Be Put in Jail for IPR Infringement

The introduction on the minimum standard of IPR crimes

As the country being most frequently blamed for its intellectual property rights infringement, China has strengthened its legislature in IPR to wash its mud stuck reputation, though the enforcement of such laws still contains defect, any infringement against IPR could bring the criminal liability. In fact, many infringed companies have jailed the infringers for intellectual property infringement, such as the Microsoft against the author of “Tomato Garden”, Microsoft piracy and the IFPI against the owers of the “Knight Music”. Today, Bridge IP Law Commentary will introduce the regulations regarding to the lowest standards for crimes of trademark, copyright, patent and trade secret infringement. (the image above is the install CD of Tomato Garden)

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