On January 11, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security jointly released a 16-article Opinions on applicable law for IPR criminal cases, further defines the applicable laws for IPR criminal cases including the administration of the cases, efficiency of collecting and utilizing relative evidences, obtaining and indentifying the sampling evidence and affirmation of key-component of a criminal.

The opinions also clean rules of governing the distributing the counterfeiting goods on purpose. According to the opinions, people who know well their deeds may give a loose rein to infringers violating IPRs but still provide required materials or services such as internet access, server trust and network server storage space will be deemed as accomplice infringing IPRS.

(China IP News)