The Number
China Daily | Updated: 2013-08-09 07:24
2,176 people
The number of suspects arrested for intellectual property rights infringement in China in the first half of 2013, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said on Thursday. In the same period, 3,805 people involved in 2,253 IPR violation cases were prosecuted, the SPP said. IPR-related crimes have increased gradually, and trademark infringement has become the most serious violation, accounting for 80 percent of the cases, it said.
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