1. Acts of unfair competition related to intellectual property rights include:
(1) Commodity counterfeiting. Including the confusion behavior of commodity subjects and the false labeling behavior of commodities;
(2) false propaganda. It refers to the behavior that operators use advertisements or other methods to make false propaganda of goods that is inconsistent with the actual situation, leading to misidentification by users and consumers;
(3) Infringement of trade secrets. Regarding the legal protection of trade secrets, different countries adopt different legislative examples, some enact separate laws, some stipulate unfair competition laws, and some apply general tort laws;
(4) Commercial libel. It refers to the behavior of operators to slander and belittle the business reputation and commodity reputation of competitors and weaken their competitive strength by fabricating and spreading false facts and other unfair competition means.
2. Legal basis: Article 21 of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Operators and other natural persons, legal persons and unincorporated organizations that violate the provisions of Article 9 of this Law shall be ordered by the supervision and inspection department to stop the illegal act, confiscate the illegal income and impose a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 1 million yuan; If the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than 500,000 yuan but not more than 5 million yuan shall be imposed.
Second, is unfair competition an infringement of intellectual property rights?
Unfair competition belongs to intellectual property infringement. Anti-unfair competition is a general provision for traditional intellectual property rights, such as copyright, trademark right and other intellectual property rights except patent right, which mainly includes infringement of trade secrets and false propaganda, and belongs to the category of intellectual property rights.