Supplementary Provisions Concerning the Punishment of Crimes ofCounterfeiting Registered Trademarks Made by the Standing CommitteeNational People's Congress
Supplementary Provisions Concerning the Punishment of Crimes ofCounterfeiting Registered Trademarks Made by the Standing CommitteeNational People's Congress
(Adopted at the 30th Session of the Standing Committee of theSeventh National People's Congress, on February 22, 1993)
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Supplementary Provisions Concerning the Punishment of Crimes of
Counterfeiting Registered Trademarks Made by the Standing Committee of the
National People's Congress
(Adopted at the 30th Session of the Standing Committee of the
Seventh National People's Congress, on February 22, 1993)
In order to punish such criminal acts as to counterfeit registered
trademarks, the following supplementary provisions shall be made and added
to the Criminal Law:
1. Where any person uses, without the authorization of the proprietor of a
registered trademark, a trademark that is identical with the registered
trademark in question in respect of the same goods, and the amount of his
illegal income is considerable or he has committed other serious acts, he
shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years
or criminal detention, or sentenced concurrently or exclusively to a fine;
where the amount of his illegal income is enormous, he shall be sentenced
to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than
seven years and concurrently to a fine.
Where any person sells goods that he knows bear a counterfeited registered
trademark, and the amount of his illegal income is considerable, he shall
be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or
criminal detention, or sentenced concurrently or exclusively to a fine;
where the amount of his illegal income is enormous, he shall be sentenced
to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than
seven years and concurrently to a fine.
2. Where any person counterfeits, or makes, without authorization,
representations of a registered trademark of another person, or sells such
representations of a registered trademark as were counterfeited, or made
without authorization, and the amount of his illegal income is
considerable or he has committed other serious acts, he shall be punished
according to the provisions of Paragraph 1 of Article 1 above.
3. Where any enterprise or institution has committed any of such crimes as
enumerated in the preceding two articles, it shall be sentenced to a fine,
and the person in charge who is directly responsible and any other persons
who are directly responsible shall be prosecuted, according to the
provisions of the preceding two articles, for their criminal liabilities.
4. Where any functionary of the State exploits his office to intentionally
harbour any enterprise, institution or individual that he knows to be
guilty of any of such criminal acts as enumerated in these Provisions and
make it or him to escape being prosecuted, he shall be prosecuted, mutatis
mutandis under the provisions of Article 188 of the Criminal Law, for his
criminal liabilities.
Where any functionary of the State who is responsible for prosecuting such
criminals as enumerated in these Provisions fails to perform his functions
of prosecution as prescribed by law, he shall be prosecuted, according to
the provisions of Article 187 of the Criminal Law or mutatis mutandis
under the provisions of Article 188 of the Criminal Law, for his criminal
liabilities.
5. These Provisions shall enter into force on July 1, 1993.
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