China News Service, Beijing, April 25 (Reporter Zhang Su) The copyright infringement case of Lego Inc. involving a total of more than 300 million yuan (RMB, the same below) was included in the 2020 procuratorial organ issued by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of China on the 25th. Typical cases of protection of intellectual property rights.
The case revealed that the defendant Li Moumou hired 8 people including Du Moumou, without the permission of Lego Company, to split the assembled toys sold by Lego Company through computer modeling, copy drawings, and entrust others to make molds, etc. , Produced and copied assembled building block toy products in a toy factory, and sold them online and offline under the "Lepin" brand.
After identification, from September 11, 2017 to April 23, 2019, Li and others produced and sold more than 4.24 million boxes of 634 models of infringing products, with a value of more than 300 million yuan involved.
In the end, nine defendants were sentenced to six to three years in prison and fines ranging from 90 million yuan to 200,000 yuan for committing the crime of copyright infringement.
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate stated that the case demonstrates that the procuratorial organs perform their duties in accordance with the law and equally protect copyright owners at home and abroad.
The typical significance of the case is also to accurately distinguish the boundary between the crime of copyright infringement and the crime of selling infringing copies.
Including this case, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued 12 typical cases of procuratorial organs protecting intellectual property rights in 2020 on the 25th, including 4 criminal cases of commercial secret infringement, 4 criminal cases of copyright infringement, 2 criminal cases of trademark infringement, and intellectual property rights. 2 civil and administrative supervision cases.
One case of infringement of film copyright has also attracted much attention.
The three criminal gangs of Ma Mouyu, Wen Mou and Lu pirated and distributed hundreds of films including "The Wandering Earth" and "Crazy Aliens" by dubbing theatrical movies and encrypting pirated movies, and they operated illegally. The amount is more than ten million yuan.
The defendants in this case were sentenced to four to six years in prison and fined between 600,000 yuan and 5.5 million yuan.
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate emphasized that the procuratorial organs have always maintained a high-pressure attitude towards online copyright infringement crimes, focused on cracking down on organized crime, and continuously improved the level of criminal copyright protection.
Statistics show that in 2020, prosecutors across the country approve 3,918 crimes of infringing intellectual property rights, 7155 people, and 5,847 cases of 12,163 prosecutions.
The prosecutors are also promptly correcting problems in the field of infringement of intellectual property rights, such as unremoved cases, undocumented cases, improper filing of cases, penalty in lieu of punishment, and unfair judgments.
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