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Intelectual Property: China handles 56,634 trademark infringement cases in 2008

China investigated 56,634 trademark infringement cases in 2008, up 12.55 percent from the previous year. Statistics released by the Chinese State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) on revealed recently that these include 45,492 domestic cases and 11,142 foreign-related ones, up 13.74 percent and 7.97 percent, respectively.

China investigated 56,634 trademark infringement cases in 2008, up 12.55 percent from the previous year. Statistics released by the Chinese  State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) on revealed recently that these include 45,492 domestic cases and 11,142 foreign-related ones, up 13.74 percent and 7.97 percent, respectively.

Fines from the cases reached 467 million yuan (68.3 million U.S. dollars), up 11.92 percent from the previous year, while 137 trademark-related criminal cases and 145 suspects were handed over to judicial organs, according to the SAIC.

Specifically, industry and commerce authorities across the country handled 5,858 cases infringing the trademark rights of Olympic symbols last year.

These cases involved 34.84 million yuan (5.09 million U.S. dollars) in value, with a total fine of 29.76 million yuan.

By Itamar Medeiros

Originally from Brazil, Itamar Medeiros currently lives in Germany, where he works as VP of Design Strategy at SAP, where he leads the design vision for the entire Human Capital Management product line, ensuring cohesive product narratives and establishing best practices.

Working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, Itamar has helped truly global companies in multiple continents create great user experience through advocating Design and Innovation principles. Itamar has also served as a juror for prestigious design competitions and lectured on design topics at universities worldwide.

During his 7 years in China, he promoted the User Experience Design discipline as User Experience Manager at Autodesk and Local Coordinator of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) in Shanghai.

Itamar holds a MA in Design Practice from Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK), for which he received a Distinction Award for his thesis Creating Innovative Design Software Solutions within Collaborative/Distributed Design Environments.

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