Henan: Zhengzhou to combat IPR violations

Since the launch of the campaign two months ago to fight against IPR infringement and manufacture and distribution of fake and commodities, Zhengzhou police authorities have destroyed 9 criminal groups and 37 places where counterfeit products were manufactured, ferreted out 4 internet websites for distributing pirated materials and arrested 72 suspects. As much as 14 million yuan was involved in the cracked cases

The campaign was launched on October 19, 2010. Till now nearly one thousand sets of equipment have been seized for being allegedly used to manufacture fake commodities; about 100 thousand pieces of daily necessities infringing trademarks have been found.

Following clues provided by citizens, officials in Zhongmu County raided several places where fake condiment were produced and stored, closed down 5 warehouses and factories and seized 12,000 cartons of finished products and 5 sets of manufacturing equipment.

Contact numbers of Zhengzhou municipal police office and its affiliates have been released to receive crime clues and complaints.