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Children's Day | Protect children's hearts and protect intellectual property

2023-06-01

In recent years, with the development of the Internet and the popularity of social media, blind boxes, as an emerging trend of toys, have been loved by adults who are still young and children who are still reading, but do you know that the blind box you buy may be fake! Some people not only sell but also produce! Let's take a look back at this blind box infringement case.

In January 2023, the Huzhou Public Security Bureau found that the live broadcast room of a certain platform was peddling trendy toys without the authorization of the rights company. After a preliminary understanding, the trendy toy figure is a product of a cultural and creative company in Beijing, and its market share ranks first.

In February 2023, the case will be officially filed for investigation. After research and judgment, a criminal network of manufacturing, subcontracting, and sales from Guangdong, Shaanxi to Deqing, Zhejiang Province was discovered. In April, the task force simultaneously launched a net arrest operation in three provinces and eight places, and at the same time smashed 5 dens for the production and sale of counterfeit infringing products, seized more than 50 people on the spot, took criminal coercive measures against 13 people, seized more than 20 counterfeiting machines and equipment, seized more than 150,000 pirated figures, and the amount involved amounted to more than 1,000 yuan. It has recovered huge losses for copyright owners and greatly deterred illegal and criminal acts of infringement in the field of copyright. The case is currently being processed.

▲The picture shows the site, machine, and equipment of the counterfeiting den

The modus operandi of this case is highly novel: it adopts the method of live broadcast on the platform to carry out counterfeit sales activities to achieve the purpose of profiteering. The criminal methods are highly concealed: the suspect changed the color of the figure and the details of some of the craftsmanship during the production process. The criminal methods are highly evasive. In the process of producing and selling trendy toy figures, the criminal suspect circumvented the traditional crime of trademark infringement. High professionalism of the criminals: From the investigation process of the case, it is found that the personnel involved in the case have a clear division of labor from molding, production, packaging, transportation, intermediary, and sales. The impact of the crime is strong: the sales amount of the counterfeit gang in Deqing is as high as more than 120 yuan in just three months; The profit-making process of the entire production and sales network chain will have an extremely huge impact on the production and operation of formal enterprises.

However, the Internet is not a place outside the law, and the Huzhou Public Security will continue to strengthen network inspections in the next step, and severely crack down on illegal and criminal activities using the Internet.