Live streaming sales claim to be a "one-to-one perfect replica" brand of building blocks. Shanghai police have destroyed 14 fake production and sales dens
2024-08-12
The live broadcast room claims to be a "one-to-one perfect replica" of the original factory building block toys, and the camera is filled with various counterfeit assembled building blocks. On the 9th, it was learned from the Shanghai police that in recent days, the Shanghai police, in conjunction with the Ministry of Public Security's summer security patrol and prevention, have cracked a copyright infringement case, dismantled a criminal gang that covers the entire chain from production, storage, transportation to sales, arrested 45 suspects, destroyed 14 counterfeit manufacturing and sales dens, and seized 3 production lines. In March 2024, the Xuhui Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau received a report from a rights holder company that someone had opened several stores on an e-commerce website to sell products suspected of counterfeiting the company's brand. After being sampled and inspected by the police, it was found that the building block toys sold by him were of poor workmanship and had a copying relationship with the building blocks owned by the copyright company, which is suspected of copyright infringement. Xuhui Branch, under the guidance of the Economic Investigation Team of the Municipal Bureau, immediately filed a case for investigation, quickly targeted the online counterfeit suspect Lin in Fujian, and found out his supplier Chen along the line, while there were other first level sellers such as Yu, Cai, Cai, Hao, and toy manufacturers such as Cai, Cai, and Huang in the upstream of Chen. In addition, Chen also supplied goods to Wang in Shandong for him to set up a live streaming room online to sell counterfeit goods. The Shanghai police have been dispatched to three locations to carry out a synchronized crackdown on all counterfeit production and sales dens. They have arrested 45 suspects involved in the case, including Lin, Chen, Yu, and Cai, and seized more than 1200 types of counterfeit toys, more than 500000 pieces of counterfeit molds, as well as account books, crime phones, and computers. In response to the characteristics of a large number of people involved in this case and a wide range of sales channels, the police have dispatched investigation teams to various places multiple times. With the cooperation of local police, they have gradually identified the specific addresses of three counterfeiting dens and 11 warehouses and sales points, effectively grasped the actual production and goods transportation and storage situation of the counterfeiting workshop, and clarified the organizational structure and activity rules of the cross provincial gangs in Guangdong, Fujian, and Shandong. On July 24th, the police went to three locations and launched a synchronized crackdown on all counterfeit production and sales dens. They arrested 45 suspects involved in the case, including Lin, Chen, Yu, and Cai, and seized more than 1200 types of counterfeit toys, more than 500000 pieces of counterfeit molds, as well as account books, crime phones, computers, etc. According to the suspects, Cai Mouyong, Cai Moufa, Huang Mou and others have been operating their own toy factories for many years, but due to poor sales of their own brands, they had the idea of counterfeiting "big brand" toys. So, without authorization, they each copied the authentic building block toys one by one by purchasing genuine molds, 3D modeling, and other methods, and then sold the infringing building block toys through the channels of primary distributors such as Yu, Cai, and Cai Hao, as well as secondary and tertiary distributors such as Chen, Lin, and Wang. Such toys are often labeled with the manufacturer's own trademark or no trademark logo, but the outer packaging pattern is still the same as the authentic products. Because they do not require independent design and are made from recycled materials, these counterfeit toys are often priced at only one tenth of the genuine ones. Moreover, some complex toy assembly steps are simplified, and the degree of tightness of the components varies, seriously affecting the consumer assembly experience. At present, 45 suspects have been subject to criminal coercive measures in accordance with the law on suspicion of copyright infringement, and the case is still under further investigation. (New Society)
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