The Shanghai No 3 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liang Yongping, the founder of a website that hosted pirated films with Chinese subtitles, to three years and six months in prison on Monday for copyright infringement and also fined him 1.5 million yuan ($235,000).
Jakob Linulf, Consul General of Denmark in Shanghai, wrote a formal letter to the Shanghai municipal government, expressing his country's appreciation for the efforts the city made recently in combating a counterfeiting case of the Lego registered service trademark.
In October 2019, Shanghai Customs was notified by the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau that a batch of titanium dioxide illegally labeled "CHEMOURS", a US brand, will be exported from the Shanghai Port.
The copyright owner of the Kumamon cartoon image complained to Shanghai culture and tourism law enforcement team that Shanghai Yajin Hotel Management Co Ltd used pillows and other products with the cartoon's image in their hotel rooms without the permission of the copyright owner.
Design firm HSZ was found to be involved in the unauthorized use of Beijing's bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics on an advertisement for a project on its own website.
Based on careful and thorough investigation, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau cracked down on a case of producing and selling fake Dasheng masks in August and September of 2020. Four criminals, including one named Chen Shugen, were arrested.
Lu Zhunkan, founder and legal representative of Shanghai Luanshandian Network Technology Co Ltd, and Lu Bin, a programmer at the company, were punished for infringing commercial secrets.
In March 2020, the Shanghai Market Supervision Administration received clues from superior authorities that some trademark agencies and applicants in the city maliciously registered trademarks related to the COVID-19 pandemic during the epidemic period.