Wednesday, May 12, 2021
On April 27, 2021, the General Administration of Customs, China, released the Typical Cases of Intellectual Property Enforcement by Chinese Customs (中国海关知识产权保护典型案例). Registration of intellectual property (IP) rights with Customs enables Customs to block both the import and export of infringing products. The 10 typical cases were for mainly for the export from China of counterfeit or infringing products including clothing, headphones, medicine, personal care products, chemicals and more.
The following are the 10 cases as described by Customs, edited for length and clarity. The original text may be found here (Chinese only).
1. Hangzhou Customs Seizes Counterfeit Pfizer Drugs for Export
On July 7, 2020, an import and export company in Yiwu declared to Hangzhou Customs to export a batch of small commodities such as pillow cores and paper boxes to Iraq. After preliminary inspection by customs officers, it was found th