Law – More action against IPR infringement – minister

Selling brand articles like bags on smaller markets will be banned in China to help in the struggle against fake goods, assistant minister of commerce Huang Hai said on Tuesday in Shanghai. Also government departments would have to adopt only legal software for all their operation. “Shanghai municipality has already complied with much of that upcoming rule,” Huang added.
The assistant minister spoke at the Annual WTO forum organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade.
A market for fake goods in Beijing has already been moved, and in the past month Shanghai also undertook massive policing of the XiangYang market, just around the corner of the Hilton Hotel where the conference took place.
By banning brand articles from this kind of markets, proving that the goods are actually fake would not be an issue anymore, giving the enforcement agencies a huge advantage.