\nMarking the end of a nine-month campaign against intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement with cases worth 3.43 billion yuan ($530 million), Vice Minister of Commerce Jiang Zengwei said the situation had taken a turn for the better.<\/p>\n
“You could say that there still exists some problems with China’s IPR, but I don’t endorse the idea that it is extremely serious,” Jiang told reporters at a press conference.<\/p>\n
Jiang said police had shutdown 12,854 illegal plants making pirated and counterfeit goods and arrested 9,031 suspects since the crackdown began in late October ….<\/p>\n
The U.S. Trade Representative’s office in May listed China as a country with one of the worst records for preventing copyright theft for the seventh year.<\/p>\n
Chinese piracy and counterfeiting of U.S. software and a wide range of other intellectual property cost American businesses alone an estimated $48 billion and 2.1 million jobs in 2009, the U.S. International Trade Commission said in May.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
China’s Vice Minister of Commerce claims that, following a nine-month crackdown, the country’s piracy problem has been largely resolved. American officials disagree. From Reuters: Marking the end of a nine-month campaign against intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement with cases worth 3.43 billion yuan ($530 million), Vice Minister of Commerce Jiang Zengwei said the situation had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":962,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,2,10,6],"tags":[1405,92,575,159,111,2991],"class_list":["post-122452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-economy","category-law","category-sci-tech","tag-counterfeiting","tag-crackdown","tag-intellectual-property-rights","tag-piracy","tag-software","tag-software-piracy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
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