Customs Ups Its Game As Counterfeiting Continues To Grow (Part One)

Legal framework

The state actively promotes legislation, facilitation of trademark branding and trademark registration, improvement of product quality and strengthening of IP protection, management and relative IP services.

In 2021, the government intensively revised and issued various IP policies and regulations, including:

• Measures for the Construction and Management of National Geographical Indication Products Protection Demonstration Zones (trial implementation);
• Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on the Application of Punitive Damages in the Trial of Civil Cases of IP Infringement (the Interpretation);
• Provisions on Evidence in IP-related Civil Litigation, issued by the Supreme People's Court;