Government to Strengthen IPR Infringement Fight in New Areas

China will continue to the fight against intellectual property infringements and counterfeiting, focusing now on the rural-urban fringe and e-commerce platforms, a senior official said in Beijing on Friday.

"It has been a major trend in recent years that incidents of IPR infringement and counterfeiting are shifting to the rural-urban fringe areas and to e-commerce platforms. So we will maintain our focus in those areas," said Chai Haitao, deputy director of the Office of the National Leading Group for Combating IPR Infringement and Counterfeiting, said in a news conference on Friday.

IPR protection in the field of cross border e-commerce will be a major focus for the authorities, he said.

Authorities nationwide investigated more than 112,700 cases of IPR infringements and counterfeiting in the first nine months of this year, Chai said. The police also nabbed more than 20,000 suspects related to the cases during that period, among them 15,700 have been indicted.

(Source: China Daily)