Electronic retailers subject of anti-counterfeiting measures
November 24, 2014 Category IPR protection, Weekly
The Chinese government is to beef up anti-counterfeiting measures aimed at electronic retailers. Increasing cross-border e-commerce trade, often featuring small packages sent by courier, meant new approaches were needed to crack down on counterfeit goods, Chai Haitao, Deputy Director of the Office of the National Leading Group for Combating IPR Infringement and Counterfeits, said. China has long been criticized for lacking adequate protection of intellectual property rights (IPR), especially trading on the internet. Nearly 20,000 people were prosecuted in IPR-related cases in the first three quarters of the year. Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba, said “greedy” consumers were to blame for the prevalence of knock-off and fake goods available on the internet. “If you want to buy a Rolex for CNY25, you can only be blamed for being too greedy,” he told the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province. Some 26% of goods sold online in China failed government quality standards, said Chai, citing a recent report by the national product quality watchdog.
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