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What is the crime of trademark infringement?
The crime of infringing on the exclusive right to use a trademark refers to a serious act that violates trademark laws and regulations, infringes on the exclusive right to register a trademark of others, undermines the trademark management system and endangers the order of the socialist market economy. With the increasingly prominent position and role of intellectual property rights in the knowledge economy, intellectual property rights have increasingly become the focus of attention of criminals. Relevant information shows that the crime of infringing intellectual property rights has become one of the most serious transnational crimes in the category of 17 stipulated by the United Nations, and among the crimes of infringing intellectual property rights, the crime of infringing trademark rights accounts for a high proportion. During the four years from 2000 to 2003, people's courts at all levels in China concluded a total of 369 criminal cases of intellectual property rights/kloc-0, of which trademark infringement cases accounted for 85%.