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ARTICLE · 26 JUNE 2016

Effective Way For Collecting Evidence To Show Monetary Damage

Article 27 applies, in adjudication of a patent dispute, a procedural remedy against obstruction of production of evidence in civil procedure.

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Article 27 Where it is hard to determine a right owner's actual loss caused by infringement, the People's Court shall request the right owner to provide evidence regarding benefit that the infringer has obtained from the infringement according to Article 65, Paragraph 1 of the Patent Law; under a situation that the right owner has provided preliminary evidence of benefit obtained by the infringer, while the account book or material relevant to the patent infringing action are mainly owned by the infringer, the People's Court may order the infringer to provide the account book, material; where the infringer refuses to provide the account book, material without justified reasons, or provides fake account book, material, the Peoples' Court may determine the benefit obtained by the infringer due to the infringement with reference to assertion and evidence provided by the right owner.

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