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What is the maximum criminal law for infringement?
Legal analysis: 3-7 years. Article 2 14 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that anyone who knowingly sells goods with counterfeit registered trademarks shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also or only be fined; If the sales amount is huge, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined. At present, there is no crime of tort in China's criminal law. If the infringement constitutes a crime, the term of imprisonment may be determined according to the specific infringement.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law.

Article 213 Whoever uses a trademark identical to its registered trademark on the same commodity without the permission of the owner of the registered trademark, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.

Article 216 Whoever counterfeits another person's patent, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined.

Article 234 Whoever intentionally harms another person's body shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance.

Whoever commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph and causes serious injuries shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years; Whoever causes death or serious disability by particularly cruel means shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, life imprisonment or death. Where there are other provisions in this Law, such provisions shall prevail.