Last year, Jiangsu police investigated more than 2,000 cases of intellectual property infringement, building a solid legal defense line for intellectual property protection.

April 26 is the 24th World Intellectual Property Day. The reporter learned from the Provincial Public Security Department that last year the provincial public security organs in-depth promoted the “Kunlun 2023” and other special operations to crack down on crimes in the food and drug environment and intellectual property fields, cracked down on infringement and counterfeiting crimes in accordance with the law, carried out in-depth corporate intellectual property protection, and jointly investigated various types of infringements. There were more than 2,000 cases of counterfeiting crimes, more than 5,000 suspects were arrested, and 30 cases listed under the supervision of the Ministry of Public Security were successfully solved, which effectively curbed the frequent occurrence of such crimes.

Intellectual Property Infringement Patterns Are Constantly Revamped

Intellectual property rights are connected to innovation and the market, and are related to the technological innovation capabilities and market competitiveness of enterprises. Judging from the case handling practice of the public security organs, among cases involving intellectual property crimes, trademark infringement cases are still very common. Last year, the public security organs of our province successively uncovered the “7·26” case of manufacturing and selling counterfeit brand valve positioners in Baoying County, the “3·20” case of selling counterfeit brand sports shoes in Xuzhou, the “9·19” case of counterfeit brand power tools in Nantong, and the case of Suqian Zhang A number of major and key cases including the case of a certain person counterfeiting the brand Guangmao.

In the information network environment, intellectual property crimes are characterized by professionalism, chaining, and networking. In March last year, the Lianyungang City Public Security Bureau, based on reports from the masses, destroyed a criminal gang that infringed copyright through online platforms, arrested 23 suspects, destroyed 6 illegal sales dens, investigated and punished 3 illegal printing factories, and conducted on-site inspections. More than 3 million copies of children’s picture books have been pirated.

Criminals continue to innovate in new ways of infringing on intellectual property rights, especially with the help of network technology and modern logistics and transportation. Crimes of intellectual property infringement are characterized by the separation of people and goods, separation of goods and trademarks, separation of assembly and processing sites and warehouses, separation of the place of infringement and the place of sales, etc. The police It is becoming more and more difficult to handle cases. In June last year, the Jurong City Public Security Bureau, based on clues handed over by the market supervision department, completely destroyed a criminal chain that was involved in the production and sale of counterfeit internationally renowned brand watches in Guangdong and radiating across the country. In this case, the police arrested 25 suspects, destroyed 8 watch assembly, packaging, storage and other dens, and seized more than 10,000 sets of counterfeit well-known brand watches, movements, and accessories.

Build protection outposts into enterprises

In response to the new situations and problems that have arisen in the protection of intellectual property rights in the province, as well as the new needs and expectations of enterprises, the public security organs have always maintained a strict and high-pressure posture and continued to launch new measures to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights.

Since May 2022, Wuxi police have successively innovatively established “intellectual property protection service outposts” in the city’s pillar industries, leading industries, and leading enterprises, and public security agencies at the city and county levels have arranged for police to work on-site. “The establishment of the service outpost is to move the work forward and set the service stations of the public security organs closer to the enterprises.” Zhou Guangming, instructor of the Food and Drug Environmental Detachment of Wuxi Public Security Bureau, said that the service outpost adopts a “one-stop” service method. When an enterprise encounters an intellectual property infringement problem and comes to report or consult, it can respond quickly, carry out case acceptance, clue identification, investigation and evidence collection on the spot, and promptly and accurately crack down on intellectual property criminal crimes. The enterprise can get the situation within 24 hours. feedback.

In September last year, during a discussion and exchange with the intellectual property contact person of Heilan House, the full-time outpost police of the Food, Drug and Environmental Protection Brigade of Jiangyin Municipal Public Security Bureau learned that there were many counterfeit Heilan House clothing on the Internet, and immediately launched an investigation. We have mastered the criminal gang’s committing crimes through a certain live streaming platform store such as “Hailan Online OEM” as a channel and delivering goods directly through other provinces and cities. On November 10 last year, the police arrested 5 criminal suspects in other provinces and cities, destroyed 1 production and counterfeiting den, and seized more than 10,000 pieces of counterfeit brand clothing such as Heilan House and more than 100,000 counterfeit trademarks and signs on the spot.

Up to now, Wuxi has built and operationalized 5 “service outposts”, covering more than 770 key enterprises, and directly obtained clues to solve more than 50 criminal cases of intellectual property infringement, involving a total amount of 380 million yuan. Last year, “Service Outpost” was selected into the second batch of typical cases of the State Council’s efforts to build a strong country in intellectual property rights and the Ministry of Public Security’s typical cases of strengthening criminal protection of intellectual property rights and supporting comprehensive innovation.

The reporter learned that in Yancheng, in order to protect enterprise innovation, the local police focused on serving the city’s well-known trademarks, specialized new products, strategic emerging enterprises, etc., and established the Yancheng City Public Security Bureau’s Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Detachment at the Intellectual Property Research Association “Salt The “Zhiwei” police office has established and improved a green channel for accepting enterprise-related cases and a rapid investigation and response mechanism. Last year, it quickly detected and solved 5 cases of intellectual property infringement.

Efficiently protect business secrets in accordance with the law

Trade secrets are valuable intellectual property rights and innovative achievements of enterprises, and are crucial to the survival and development of enterprises. In recent years, trade secret infringement disputes between enterprises have occurred frequently and have gradually become a new focus of conflict in market competition.

“Trade secret infringement activities are more concealed. Most companies have low awareness and insufficient actions for the protection of trade secrets. They fail to take effective control measures after the trade secrets are generated, which objectively makes it difficult to protect the criminal rights of trade secrets.” Suzhou Public Security Bureau Gu Xuelong, leader of the First Team of the Bureau’s Food, Drug and Environmental Investigation Detachment, said that in order to protect the development of enterprises, the Suzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau has unified arrangements in the city’s case acceptance center to promote the construction of appointment reporting service centers for trade secret infringement, and is the first public security agency in the province to promote trade secret infringement cases. Appointment reporting mechanism and one-stop notification service, publicize 24-hour appointment reporting contact information, publicize professional police reception, list required evidence materials, implement one-time notification of supplementary evidence, further standardize the acceptance, filing and review of cases of infringement of trade secrets, Efforts should be made to solve the problem of difficulty in accepting and registering cases of infringement of trade secrets. At present, Suzhou has established 10 appointment reporting service centers for trade secret infringement, which have received more than 120 corporate inquiries and appointment reports, successfully cracked 6 criminal cases of trade secret infringement, arrested 17 suspects, and recovered more than 1 billion economic losses. Yuan.

In April last year, the Changzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau uncovered three cases of infringement of the company’s trade secrets based on clues reported by a specialized new enterprise in Liyang, arrested a total of 16 suspects, and seized a large number of stolen bid prices, customer information, and products. Accessory model parameters and technical drawings and other information promptly stopped criminal acts that infringed on the company’s business information and technical information, and saved more than 3 million yuan in direct economic losses.

Dong Jinjin, the first-level sergeant of the Intellectual Property Crime Investigation Brigade of the Food, Drug and Environmental Investigation Detachment of the Changzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, told reporters that now, Changzhou has broken the practice of “not accepting cases without appraisal reports” in trade secret cases and using “technological novelty investigation reports” “Written Opinions of Industry Experts” replaced “non-public appraisal reports”, which greatly lowered the threshold for accepting cases. From 2022 to March this year, Changzhou Police has received 25 reports, and the number of cases accepted has increased significantly. On April 26 last year, Changzhou police also joined forces with local courts, procuratorates, market supervision and other units to establish the “Trade Secrets Protection Alliance” to guide companies vulnerable to trade secret crimes to improve civil defense, physical defense, technical defense, institutional defense and other measures. , has so far conducted trade secret medical examinations for 93 companies, stopped 5 trade secret infringements, solved 4 criminal cases of trade secrets, and recovered losses of more than 100 million yuan for companies.

Xinhua Daily·Intersection reporter Hu Lanlan