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Is it illegal for a micro-business to sell fake shoes?

Legal analysis: Selling fake shoes is illegal. If the amount of illegal income from selling counterfeit shoes is relatively large or there are other serious circumstances, the crime of selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks will be suspected.

Anyone who knowingly sells goods with counterfeit registered trademarks and the sales amount is more than 50,000 yuan shall fall into the category of "relatively large amount" stipulated in Article 214 of the Criminal Law and shall be deemed as selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks. The offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or solely be fined.

If the sales amount is more than 250,000 yuan, it belongs to the "huge amount" stipulated in Article 214 of the Criminal Law, and shall be sentenced to not less than three years but not more than seven years for the crime of selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks. Imprisonment and a fine.

Although there is an act of selling goods that are counterfeiting other people’s registered trademarks, the illegal gains are not significant and do not constitute a crime.

If the products being sold are not counterfeiting others’ registered trademarks, such as products without a trademark, or products with a trademark but not a registered trademark, or even though there is a registered trademark, it is not someone else’s but one’s own registered trademark. The crime of selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks does not constitute the crime of selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks.

Legal basis:

Article 214 of the "Criminal Law", who knowingly sells goods that are counterfeit registered trademarks, and the amount of illegal gains is relatively large or there are other serious circumstances, shall be punished. The offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years and concurrently or solely fined; if the amount of illegal income is huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than ten years and concurrently fined.

It is illegal to sell fake shoes. It infringes upon trademark rights and harms the interests of consumers. Anyone who knowingly sells goods with counterfeit registered trademarks, and the sales amount is more than 50,000 yuan, falls into the category of "relatively large amount" stipulated in Article 214 of the Criminal Law, and shall be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years for the crime of selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks. or criminal detention, and concurrently or solely with a fine. If the sales amount exceeds 250,000 yuan, it falls into the category of "huge amount" as stipulated in Article 214 of the Criminal Law, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and a fine for the crime of selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks.