Liu Zhaolong, a Chinese national, was found to have purchased
raw wine, bottles, bottle caps, labels, bottle capping equipment
and other illegal materials and tools, and manufactured counterfeit
wines imitating Chivas, Remy Martin, Ballantine's, Jack
Daniels, Martell, Hennessy, Royal Salute and other famous wine
brands. Liu filled the counterfeit wines and distributed them to
several cities in China, the illegal turnover of which has been
over RMB 200,000 (around US$31,250). As a result, Beijing Daxing
District Court found that Liu Zhaolong had violated the provisions
of Article 213 of the Criminal Law of China and committed the crime
of counterfeiting a registered trademark.
Pursuant to the judicial interpretations jointly issued by the
Supreme People's Court of China and the Supreme People's
Procuratorate of China in December 2004, a person who uses a mark
identical to a registered trademark on the same type of goods
without permission, and either has an operational
