Six People Sentenced for Trade Mark InfringementsLocal courts in two Chinese cities sentenced six people Thursday for trade mark infringements, the Supreme People's Court announced.Wu Shaowu purchased a large amount of soap and shampoo with fake trade marks from south China's Guangdong Province. Wu Shaowu, Huang Changchao and Huang Yu sold the soap and shampoo in Yiwu city in east China's Zhejiang Province and received 410,000 yuan of illegal income. They were sentenced six, four and three years in jail respectively, and 10,000 yuan, 5,000 yuan and 4,000 yuan fines respectively. Zhu Yongming, from Yiwu city in Zhejiang, was sentenced to three years in jail, and a 8,000 yuan fine for manufacturing and selling fake "Nanfu" batteries, a famous Chinese battery trade mark. Xu Zhonghui and Xu Yizhong, both from Bijie City of west China' s Guizhou Province, were sentenced two and half years and two years in jail, respectively, and 50,000 yuan and 30,000 yuan fines respectively, for processing and selling fake "Shuangqiao" monosodium glutamate, also a well-known Chinese trade mark. |
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