Beijing, 5 May (Reporter Peng Bo) On the 5th, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate released "Ten Typical Cases of Intellectual Property Protection by Procuratorial Organs in 2015", including various types of intellectual property cases such as infringement of trade secrets, infringement of copyright, counterfeiting of registered trademarks, disputes over trademark use rights and infringement of invention patents. According to the statistics from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, in 2015, the national procuratorial organs approved the arrest of 2,615 cases involving 4,445 people and prosecuted 4,484 cases involving 8,025 people, indicating that the efforts to crack down on intellectual property infringement crimes are increasing.
With the development of China’s economy, disputes and cases involving intellectual property rights are increasing. In 2015, industrial and commercial and market supervision departments at all levels in China filed a total of 51,000 cases of infringement and counterfeiting, involving 740 million yuan. At the same time, under the influence of local and departmental protectionism, some places indulge or even shield and cover up illegal and criminal acts of infringing intellectual property rights and manufacturing and selling fake and shoddy goods, and some administrative law enforcement officers with supervisory responsibilities and investigators with investigation responsibilities engage in malpractices for personal gain and dereliction of duty, acting as "protective umbrellas". In this regard, the procuratorial organs responsible for investigating and dealing with duty crimes have intensified their crackdown. In 2015, the national procuratorial organs decided to arrest 3 job-related criminal suspects who indulged in the crime of manufacturing and selling fake and inferior commodities, and prosecuted 3 cases and 3 people; It was decided to arrest 13 job-related criminal suspects and 15 people suspected of engaging in malpractices for selfish ends and not handing over criminal cases, and to prosecute 64 cases and 118 people. In terms of supervision of criminal proceedings, after the national procuratorial organs initiated the procedure of filing and supervising the infringement and counterfeiting cases that the public security organs should have filed but not filed for investigation, the public security organs filed and investigated 717 cases of 859 people suspected of producing and selling fake and inferior commodities and 49 cases of 61 people suspected of infringing intellectual property rights.
The National Conference of Procurators General held at the beginning of this year requested that procuratorial organs at all levels should strengthen the research on new crimes of infringing intellectual property rights in the era of big data, carry out in-depth work to crack down on crimes of infringing intellectual property rights and manufacturing and selling counterfeit and shoddy goods, actively promote the construction of a mechanism linking administrative law enforcement and criminal justice in the field of intellectual property rights, protect emerging productive forces according to law, and ensure mass entrepreneurship and innovation.