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ARTICLE · 07 JANUARY 2021

News December 2020 Fr AFD China

China's new draft amendment to its Criminal Law has proposed stricter punishment for intellectual property crimes.

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China Mulls Heavier Criminal Penalties for Intellectual Property Infringements

China's new draft amendment to its Criminal Law has proposed stricter punishment for intellectual property crimes.

The draft Amendment XI proposes that the maximum prison term for trademark and copyright infringements will be increased from seven years to 10 years. Particularly,

  • Whoever, without permission of the owner of a registered trademark, uses a trademark which is identical to the registered one on the same kind of commodities or services shall, if the circumstances are especially serious, be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than 10 years and shall also be fined.

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