Legal basis:
Article 185 of the Civil Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) (202 1, 1, in force): If the circumstances are serious, the infringed party has the right to request corresponding punitive damages.
Article 213 of the Criminal Law: 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 217 Whoever, for the purpose of making profits, commits any of the following cases of copyright infringement, and the amount of illegal income is relatively large or there are other serious circumstances, 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 amount of illegal income is huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, 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:
(1) Reproduction and distribution of written works, music, movies, television and video works, computer software and other works without the permission of the copyright owner;
(2) Publishing books with exclusive publishing rights enjoyed by others;
(3) Reproduction and distribution of audio and video products made by the producer without the permission of the producer;
(4) producing or selling works of art with forged signatures of others.