SAIC nabs over 60,000 IP infringement cases in 6 years

December 5, 2007
From 2002 to the first half of this year, the fair trade enforcement and economic examination mechanism under the State Administration for Industry & Commerce (SAIC) cracked down upon 60,203 intellectual property infringement cases worth 1.415 billion yuan (191 million U.S. dollars), confiscating 472 million yuan (nearly 64 million U.S. dollars), according to the 2007 China Trademark Festival held in Changsha, Hunan, recently.

SAIC always put emphases on cracking down illegal activities of producing or selling fake goods of other companies’ registered trademark, copying the names, packages or decorations of well-known commodities, and illegally using names of other companies, said Li Wenzhang, deputy director of Fair Trade Bureau of SAIC General Office.

In the first half of the year, SAIC intercepted 2,526 cases of infringing trademarks worth 25.42 million yuan (3.4 million U.S. dollars), confiscating 14.71 million yuan (1.99 million U.S. dollars). It also cracked down on 1,104 cases of copying names, packages or decorations of well-known commodities worth 15.99 million yuan (2.16 million U.S. dollars), confiscating 6.66 million yuan. It also seized 782 cases of illegally using other companies or persons’ names worth 32.76 million yuan (4.4 million U.S. dollars), taking 11.70 million yuan (1.58 million U.S. dollars) in penalty, according to Li.

Over the recent years, Industry and Commerce authorities took measures to protect the intellectual property of Estee Lauder Co., Coco-cola (China) Co., Anheuser-Busch Co. and many other world-famous brands. In 2004, SAIC General Office handled the cases over many companies infringing Estee Lauder’s registered trademark. The efforts have won widespread acknowledgements both at home and from abroad, especially from the United States.

　

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